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RALPH C. DAY
Mayor, 1940
IN MEMORIAM
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD TWEEDSMUIR
P.C., G.C.M.G., C.H., D.C.L., LL.D., D. Litt.
Governor-General of Canada
Born August 26, 1875. Died February 11, 1940
IN MEMORIAM
“Know ge not that there is a Prince
and a great man fatten this dag
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2 Sam. 5: 58.
In the inscrutable wisdom of
God, the Right Honourable Baron
Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, beloved
Governor-General and Commander-
in-Chief of Canada, departed this
life on Sunday, February 11, 1940.
His death cast a pall of gloom, not
alone over Canada, but the entire
English-speaking world, for this
great leader of the people, whose
every action bespoke the nobleness
of his thoughts, was loved by all
who knew him, for his kindness and
humility, for his background of
cultural attainment and his pro¬
found knowledge of human values.
While he lived he enriched the
life of our Empire with glimpses of
a higher life, bringing to us all a
nobler conception of the brother¬
hood of man.
The good that he has done will
live after him in the hearts of our
Canadian people, for we will
remember him always, as one of
God's gentlemen, who served,
faithful unto death, his God, his
King, and his Country.
JAMES W. SOMERS, O.B.E
CITY CLERK
Extract from a
RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE
CANADIAN FEDERATION OF
MAYORS AND MUNICIPALITIES
at a Meeting Held in the City of Ottawa
on April 12thf 1939
"As Mayors representing the Municipalities
of Canada, we are constantly faced with public
apathy and the sort of criticism which carries
with it little sense of personal responsibility.
Such attitudes in the individual greatly increase
the difficulty of our task, and multiplied by
thousands of people all across the Dominion,
they create a state of affairs in Canada which is
far from healthy.
"If we are to deal with the problems of our
Country, which grow every day more involved,
we must have an entirely new mental outlook.
Our urgent need in Canada is to cultivate the
will to work together. For this, we must find
again those fundamental qualities of honesty
and unselfishness which are the foundations of a
healthy democracy. As Lord Baldwin has said,
'The need of the day is Moral Re-Armament, a
programme which builds on what unites people
instead of what divides them.'
"Such a programme would bring a whole
new effectiveness to municipal life. We all
know how in our Councils the selfish interests of
a small minority, or even of one individual, can
cause endless difficulty and delay. Our task as
Mayors must be to lift the level of all proceedings
and all policy above personal ambition, preju¬
dice and party interest. If this is done, municipal
executives will be able to devote their full energy
to a constructive programme. The spirit of
Moral Re-Armament in the Council will in turn
spread confidence and trust throughout the
community. . .
CITY HALL
FRED J. CONBOY, D.D.S.
Vice Chairman BOARD OF CONTROL
FREDERICK HAMILTON
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WM. J. WADSWORTH
Controller
TORONTO
THE INDUSTRIAL CENTRE OF CANADA
T^ROM wigwam to metropolis, the growth of
A the City of Toronto has been likened unto a
modern edition of the "Arabian Nights", for
within the comparatively short span of thirty
decades, this great City has arisen on the site
that was once the meeting-place of Indian tribes.
Almost three hundred years ago, lured by the
thoughts of lucrative gain from trade in furs,
caused by the increasing demand for this com¬
modity in France and England, the first French
adventurers explored the possibilities for trade
on the northern shores of Lake Ontario, being
guided by friendly Indians to their place of
meeting, which is now the site of the City of
Toronto. The name, Toronto, signifies in the
Indian language the "place of meeting".
Long before the advent of the white race,
however, the site of the present City of Toronto
was a recognized meeting place for Indian tribes,
being the termination of the most important of
their trails connecting Lake Huron and Lake
Ontario. It was the custom of the Indians to
make the last great portage between Lake Simcoe
and Lake Ontario along trails cut through the
almost impenetrable hardwood forests that cov¬
ered the entire Province at that time.
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Toronto — continued
Governor John Graves Simcoe, on his first
visit to Toronto on May 2, 1793, chose the site of
the City for the Capital of the Province of Upper
Canada. While it is a popular tradition that
Governor Simcoe was the founder of the City of
Toronto, there is foundation for the belief that a
certain Captain Gotherman, who was connected
with the military engineers at Quebec, was the
real founder of this City. Among the Colonial
Correspondence sent to England in 1790 was
found a complete set of plans of the town
"Torento", as it was called by Captain Gother¬
man, showing a survey of the entire territory
surrounded by High Park, Broadview Avenue
and Bloor Street. Governor Simcoe, upon his
arrival with one hundred men of the Queen's
Rangers, looked over the site of the proposed
Capital, but was not impressed with its location
and decided to locate the headquarters of the
Province on the present site of the City of
London. However, under pressure from his
superiors in Quebec, he reluctantly ordered his
soldiers, then encamped near the foot of Bathurst
Street, to commence laying out the town. One
of the notable achievements of Governor Simcoe
was the opening of Yonge Street to Lake Simcoe,
which was completed in 1796.
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T oron to — continued
On August 26, 1793, the Governor, having
learned of the success of His Majesty's Arms
under His Royal Highness, the Duke of York, son
of the then King George III, changed the name
of Toronto to that of York. At this time, news
took two months at least to reach Canada from
England, depending on good weather and fair
winds on the North Atlantic, while a hanging
was a public entertainment and thieves were
branded in open court.
In 1834, the population of the town having
increased to 9,000, it was incorporated as the
City of Toronto by Act of Incorporation dated
March 6, 1834. Toronto's incorporation was
made perpetual by an Act of 1840, so this City
has had the longest continuous self-government
in Canada. The first elections were held on
March 27, when William Lyon Mackenzie,
grandfather on his mother's side of the present
Prime Minister of Canada, was chosen by his
fellow members of Council as the first Mayor of
Toronto. The City was divided into five wards,
two aldermen and two councilmen being elected
from each ward. The City assessment for the
year 1834 was $657,592, and the estimated
revenue was $10,221. All male householders
had the franchise, whether owners or tenants.
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Toronto — continued
The development of the City of Toronto, from
its incorporation a little more than a century ago,
has been progressively rapid until to-day it stands
out as the foremost industrial and commercial
city in Canada. It is a noted centre of education,
with a highly-organized and remarkably efficient
system of secondary schools, where every child is
assured of a good education at the expense of the
ratepayers, who are educated to the advantages
of living in a city where their children can so
readily take advantage of the exceptional
educational facilities provided by the munici¬
pality. Toronto is proud of its reputation as a
health centre and regards the health of its citizens
as one of the most important functions of munici¬
pal government. The Local Department of Public
Health is recognized as one of the foremost on the
Continent and is frequently cited as an example of
an efficient, well-organized municipal health
service, embracing all phases of health work
from the primary corrective control of insanitary
conditions to the more interesting aspects of
disease prevention measures and health teaching.
Toronto is a mecca of tourists, attracted by its
beautiful homes and opportunities for enjoyment
and sightseeing. Lying midway between New
York City and Chicago, it presents an ideal
situation as a convention city, being within
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T oronto — continued
overnight distance by train from most of the
principal cities of Central and Eastern United
States. As the gateway to the famed Muskoka
regions and Northern Ontario, it attracts tourists
from all parts of the world. Toronto is the mail-
centre of Canada, and the air-hub of Eastern
Canada, with ultra-modern airport facilities
comparable with the finest on this Continent. The
commercial air line operation now established
between Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, with
its early extension to the Atlantic coast, together
with the contemplated air service connections
with various United States' cities will make
Toronto a focal point for air transportation. Here
is located the headquarters of the Meteorological
Service of Canada, and Canada's largest univer¬
sity, the great University of Toronto. The Canadian
National Exhibition, the greatest annual Fair in
the world, and the Royal Winter Fair, Canada's
finest annual agricultural, live-stock and horse
show, are both permanently located in Toronto.
The Toronto Stock Exchange handles the largest
volume of business in mining stocks in the world,
exceeding New York and London in point of
volume. This City is noted above all others for
the number of telephones used, approximately
215,000, being in operation here, and for usage
of long distance service.
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Toronto — continued
TORONTO’S CONTRIBUTION TO
SCIENCE
Among the important contributions to Science
made by the City of Toronto, it is interesting to
note that "Standard Time" was invented by
Sandford Fleming, a citizen of this City, in 1879.
This new system of reckoning time has become
legal throughout most of the civilized world.
This same citizen had the distinction of designing
Canada's first postage stamps, having won a
competition announced by the Government of
United Canada in the year 1850. He was
knighted by the late Queen Victoria in recogni¬
tion of his outstanding achievement in inventing
Standard Time.
The birth of practical electrical traction
occurred in 1883, when Messrs. Wright and
Vanderpole, two citizens of this City, invented the
trolley pole for electric cars. An electric train
using this principle was operated during the
Toronto Industrial Exhibition of that year, carry¬
ing twenty thousand passengers to and from the
grounds without mishap.
THE TORONTO OF TO-MORROW
One may find in the past history of the City of
Toronto hopeful auguries for the future greatness
of the City. Judged by infinity, the present is
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T orcnto — continued
only an imaginary line dividing the past and the
future. Any observant citizen on his way to
business must notice that the face of Toronto is
slowly but surely changing. Old landmarks of
childhood days are being torn down, giving way
to modern skyscraper buildings. Great public
buildings and extensive residential development
are changing the character of many districts, and
the resultant traffic congestion will cause still
further changes in our system of highways.
Soon, we hope, the slums of our City will be
wiped out in the march of social progress, to
become only a memory in the minds of our
citizens. Enlightened public opinion will de¬
mand of future councils that the present hap¬
hazard methods of town planning give place to
comprehensive plans, carefully prepared by
town planning experts, who will lay out great
arterial highways with rapid transit facilities
capable of whisking the workers to model
residential communities located in the quietude
of the adjacent countryside. Within the peri¬
meter of our modern city of to-morrow will lie a
new and flourishing metropolitan area, far-
removed from the enervating atmosphere of its
great industrial centre.
TORONTO
' ‘Industry — Intelligence — Integrity”
The Government of the City is carried on
under the provisions of The Municipal Act and
other related Acts, passed by the Legislature of
the Province of Ontario. It is vested in a
Municipal Council, consisting of the Mayor and
four members forming the Board of Control (all
five being elected annually by the citizens at
large) and eighteen Aldermen elected annually
from the nine Wards into which the City is
divided (two Aldermen being elected from each
Ward). The Council, as a whole, is the legislative
body of the Municipality and carries on its
legislative work through Standing Commit¬
tees, viz.: Committee on Works, Committee on
Property, Committee on Parks and Exhibitions,
and Committee on Legislation. The general
duties of all the Committees of the Council are to
report to the Council from time to time, whenever
desired by the Council and as often as the in¬
terests of the City may require, on all matters
connected with the duties imposed on them
respectively, and to recommend such action by
the Council in relation thereto as may be deemed
necessary: To examine all accounts connected
with the discharge of their duties, and if approved
to recommend same for payment. The Board
of Control is the executive body and as such is
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Toronto — continued
responsible for the preparation of the annual
Estimates or Budget and subject to the approval
of Council, the regulation and supervision of all
matters connected with expenditure, revenue
and investments, the sale, renting and leasing of
any property belonging to the Corporation,
except lands upon the Island, the administration
of the Fire Department and the Municipal
Abattoir, the awarding of contracts, arrange¬
ments for receptions and entertainments of a
public character under the direction of the
Council, the appointment of officials, the carrying
on of public works authorized by the Council, and
the general administration of the affairs of the
City, except as to the Department of Education
and Police, the first being under the control of a
Board of Education, consisting of eighteen
members, two elected from each of the nine
wards into which the City is divided, and two
members appointed by the Separate School
Board to represent Separate School supporters in
certain matters, and the latter under a Board of
Commissioners of Police, consisting of the Mayor
for the time being, one County Court Judge and
one Magistrate.
The Local Board o£ Health of the City of
Toronto consists of the Mayor, the Medical
Officer of Health and three resident rate-
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T oronto — continued
payers appointed annually by ihe Council at
its first meeting in every year. The Board
functions under authority of the Public Health
Act, revised Statutes of Ontario, 1937, Chapter
299.
ARMS OF THE CITY OF TORONTO
Heraldically Described
SHIELD — Quarterly of four. 1. Gules, three Lions
passant, gardant in pale. Or; 2. Or a Beaver, ppr.
3. Argent, a garb, proper. 4. Azure, a Steamboat, Or.
CREST — On a Mural Crown, Or, a Beaver, proper.
SUPPORTERS — Dexter, a North American Indian,
habited and armed; in the belt a scalping knife; in the,
right hand a tomahawk, the left arm leaning on a bow;
all proper. Sinister, Britannia helmed and cuirassed;
the right hand supporting a trident, the left hand rest¬
ing on a shield bearing the crosses of St. George, St.
Patrick, and St. Andrew, combined; all proper.
MOTTO — Industry, Intelligence, Integrity.
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MAYORS OF TORONTO
1834 — William Lyon Mackenzie.
1835 — Robert Baldwin Sullivan.
1836 — Thomas D. Morrison.
1837 — George Gurnett.
1838 — John Powell.
1839 — John Powell.
1840 — John Powell.
1841 — George Monro.
1842 — Hon. Henry Sherwood.
1843 — Hon. Henry Sherwood.
1844 — Hon. Henry Sherwood.
1845 — William Henry Boulton.
1846 — William Henry Boulton.
1847 — William Henry Boulton.
1848 — George Gurnett.
1849 — George Gurnett.
1850 — George Gurnett.
1851 — John George Bowes.
1852 — John George Bowes.
1853 — John George Bowes.
f Joshua George Beard.
* [John Beverley Robinson, President.
1855 — George William Allan.
1856 — John Beverley Robinson.
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1857 — John Hutchinson.
f William Henry Boulton.
\ David Breckenridge Read.
1859 — Adam Wilson.
j Adam Wilson.
[John Carr, President.
1861 — John George Bowes.
1862 — John George Bowes.
1863 — John George Bowes.
1864 — Francis H. Medcalf.
1865 — Francis H. Medcalf.
1866 — Francis H. Medcalf.
1867 — James E. Smith.
1868 — James E. Smith.
1869 — Samuel Bickerton Harman.
\ Samuel Bickerton Harman.
\D'Arcy Boulton, President.
1871 — Joseph Sheard.
1872 — Joseph Sheard.
1873 — Alexander Manning.
1874 — Francis H. Medcalf.
\ Francis H. Medcalf.
\john Baxter, President.
1876 — Angus Morrison.
f Angus Morrison.
\ Patrick G. Close, President.
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1878-
1879-
1880-
1881-
1832-
1883-
1884-
1885-
1886-
1887-
1888-
1889-
1890-
1891-
1892-
1893-
1894-
1895-
1896-
1897-
1898-
1899-
1900-
-Angus Morrison.
James Beaty, Jr.
James Beaty, Jr.
William Barclay McMurrich.
-William Barclay McMurrich.
-Arthur Radcliffe Boswell.
-Arthur Radcliffe Boswell.
-Alexander Manning.
-William Holmes Howland.
William Holmes Howland.
-Edward Frederick Clarke.
Edward Frederick Clarke.
John McMillan, President.
-Edward Frederick Clarke.
Edward Frederick Clarke.
-Robert John Fleming.
-Robert John Fleming.
-Warring Kennedy.
f Warring Kennedy.
(John Shaw, President.
-Robert John Fleming.
I Robert John Fleming.
\john Shaw.
John Shaw.
-John Shaw.
-Ernest Albert Macdonald.
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1909-
1901— Oliver A. Howland.
1902 — Oliver A. Howland.
1903 — Thomas Urquhart.
1904 — Thomas Urquhart.
1905 — Thomas Urquhart.
1906 — Emerson Coatsworth.
1907 — Emerson Coatsworth.
1908 — Joseph Oliver.
f Joseph Oliver.
[John J. Ward, President.
J George Reginald Geary.
[John J. Ward, President.
George Reginald Geary.
Francis S. Spence, President.
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George Reginald Geary.
Horatio C. Hocken.
Thomas L. Church, President.
1913 — Horatio C. Hocken.
1914 — Horatio C. Hocken.
1915 — Thomas Langton Church.
1916 — Thomas Langton Church.
1917 — Thomas Langton Church.
1918 — Thomas Langton Church.
1919 — Thomas Langton Church.
1920 — Thomas Langton Church.
1921 — Thomas Langton Church
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1912—
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1922 — Charles Alfred Maguire.
1923 — Charles Alfred Maguire.
1924— ' William W. Hiltz.
1925 — Thomas Foster.
1926 — Thomas Foster.
1927 — Thomas Foster.
Samuel McBride.
(Joseph Gibbons, President.
1929 — Samuel McBride.
1930 — Bert S. Wemp.
1931 — William J. Stewart.
1932 — William J. Stewart.
1933 — William J. Stewart.
William J. Stewart.
J. George Ramsden, President.
James Simpson.
1935 1 Samuel McBride, President.
Samuel McBride.
1936 | *William j) Robbins, President.
(Wm. J. Wadsworth, President.
1939 — Ralph C. Day.
1940 — Ralph C. Day.
* Appointed Mayor by Council for portion of
year 1936, vice Samuel McBride, deceased.
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Daylight Saving Time for the current year commences on Sunday, April 28, at 2 o'clock
., and terminates on Sunday, September 29, at 2 o'clock a.m.
24-25
26
CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES ON
HOSPITAL AND OTHER BOARDS
FOR THE YEAR 1940
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION ASSO¬
CIATION — His Worship Mayor Day, Aider-
men Howell, Innes, Johnston, MacGregor,
Phillips, Quinn and Simmons.
PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD— His Worship Mayor
Day, Thomas W. Banton, Norman B. Gash,
K.C., LL.B. and Dr. Henry Glendinning.
TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL — Aldermen
Bogart, Fleming, Plumptre, Rowntree and
Simmons.
TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL— Aldermen
Davy and Phillips.
ST. MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL— Alderman Quinn.
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL— Controller Hamilton.
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL— Alderman
Shannon.
TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL— Aider-
men Bray and Millen.
ART GALLERY - — Aldermen Davy, Fleming,
Howell, Innes and Shannon.
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY—
His Worship Mayor Day.
27
City Council, 1940— continued
MASSEY MUSIC HALL—
His Worship Mayor Day.
TORONTO HOUSING COMPANY—
Alderman Howell.
TORONTO BRANCH, CANADIAN RED CROSS
SOCIETY—
Aldermen Howell and Muir.
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY—
Aldermen Carrie, Saunders and Simmons.
TORONTO INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION—
His Worship Mayor Day.
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY—
Controller Wadsworth.
LOCAL BOARD OF THE MOTHERS' ALLOW¬
ANCES COMMISSION—
Mrs. G. D. Kirkpatrick and Mr. John Dillon.
LOCAL BOARD OF OLD AGE PENSIONS—
Alderman Carrie and Mr. Zeph. Hilton.
Service Record
Ernest C. Bogart —
Alderman, Ward No. 5, 1937, 1938, 1939,
1940.
28
City Council, 1940— continued
Ernest Bray —
Alderman, Ward No. 8, 1930, 1931, 1932,
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939,
1940.
C. M. Carrie—
Alderman, Ward No. 5, 1940.
Fred J. Conboy —
Alderman, Ward No. 6, 1935, 1936.
Controller, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940.
H. M. Davy —
Alderman, Ward No. 7, 1921, 1922, 1923,
1924, 1939, 1940.
Ralph C. Day —
Alderman, Ward No. 1, 1931, 1932, 1933,
1934.
Controller, 1935, 1936, 1937.
Mayor, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Donald M. Fleming —
Alderman, Ward No. 9, 1939, 1940.
Frederick Hamilton —
Alderman, Ward No. 5, 1929 1930, 1931,
1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936.
Controller, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Walter A. Howell —
Alderman, Ward No. 8, 1926, 1927, 1928,
1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1937,
1938, 1939, 1940.
29
City Council, 1940 — continued
John M. Innes —
Alderman, Ward No. 9, 1939, 1940.
Frank M. Johnston —
Alderman, Ward No. 1, 1918, 1919, 1920,
1921, 1922, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934,
1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Donald C. MacGregor — ■
Alderman, Ward No. 6, 1916, 1917, 1919,
1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1930, 1931,
1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937,
1938, 1939, 1940.
Controller, 1925, 1926, 1927.
J. D. McNish—
Alderman, Ward No. 9, 1935, 1936.
Controller, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Gordon J. Millen —
Alderman, Ward No. 1, 1938, 1939, 1940.
William V. Muir —
Alderman, Ward No. 6, 1939, 1940.
Nathan Phillips —
Alderman, Ward No. 4, 1924, 1925, 1926,
1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932,
1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938,
1939, 1940.
Adelaide M. Plumptre —
Alderman, Ward No. 2, 1936, 1937, 1938,
1939, 1940.
30
City Council, 1940 — continued
Percy J. Quinn —
Alderman, Ward No. 3, 1927, 1928, 1929,
1931, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Charles Rowntree —
Alderman, Ward No. 7, 1938, 1939, 1940.
Robt. H. Saunders —
Alderman, Ward No. 4, 1935, 1936, 1937,
1940.
J. Louis Shannon —
Alderman, Ward No. 2, 1938, 1939, 1940.
John S. Simmons —
Alderman, Ward No. 3, 1935, 1936, 1937,
1938, 1939, 1940.
William J. Wadsworth —
Alderman, Ward No. 7, 1927, 1928, 1929,
1930, 1931, 1932, 1933.
Controller, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939,
1940.
31
BOARD OF CONTROL AND STANDING
COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL
FOR THE YEAR 1940
BOARD OF CONTROL
Ralph C. Day (Mayor), Chairman; Controllers —
Fred J. Conboy, (Vice-Chairman), Frederick
Hamilton, J. D. McNish and Wm. J. Wads¬
worth.
Secretary at City Clerk's Office.
Meets every Wednesday, and on the Tuesday
preceding regular meeting of Council, at
10 a.m. Deputations will be heard on
Wednesdays at 11 a.m.
COMMITTEES
WORKS — Alderman Shannon, (Chairman); Con¬
troller Conboy, Aldermen Carrie, Howell,
Innes, MacGregor, Millen, Rowntree, Saun¬
ders, and Simmons.
Secretary at Works Department.
Meets every alternate Thursday at 2.30 p.m.
PROPERTY — Alderman Fleming, (Chairman);
Controller McNish, Aldermen Bogart, Bray,
Davy, Johnston, Muir, Phillips, Plumptre and
Quinn.
32
Standing Committees, 1940 — continued
Secretary at City Clerk's Office.
Meets every alternate Thursday at 2 p.m.
PARKS AND EXHIBITIONS— Alderman Bray,
(Chairman); Controller Hamilton, Aldermen
Carrie, Innes, Millen, Muir, Plumptre, Quinn,
Rowntree, and Saunders.
Secretary at City Clerk's Office.
Meets every alternate Wednesday at 2 p.m.
LEGISLATION — Alderman Bogart, (Chairman);
Controller Wadsworth, Aldermen Davy,
Fleming, Howell, Johnston, MacGregor,
Phillips, Shannon, and Simmons.
Secretary at City Clerk's Office.
Meets at call of Chairman.
LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH— Alderman
Millen (Chairman); His Worship the Mayor,
Aldermen Bray and Quinn, and the Medical
Officer of Health.
Secretary at City Clerk's Office.
Meets every alternate Wednesday at 4 p.m.
MAYOR'S OFFICE — Room No. 207, Second
Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
Ralph C. Day, Mayor, 4 Castle Frank Drive.
F. C. Hamilton, Executive Secretary, 24 Hed-
dington Ave. Telephone, Hyland 8116.
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE— Room No. 209, Second
^ Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
J. W. Somers, O.B.E., J.P., City Clerk, 29 Foxbar
Road. Telephone, Midway 1943.
A. E. Smart, Deputy City Clerk, 1383 Bathurst
St., Apt. 29. Telephone, Lloydbrook 5337.
George Weale, Secretary, Board of Control,
357 Beresford Ave. Telephone, Lyndhurst
8120.
CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE— Room No. 104,
First Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171.
**Geo. Wilson, Commissioner of Finance and
City Treasurer, 260 Russell Hill Road.
Telephone, Midway 5255.x^as^ic/W. od
Henry Reburn, Deputy City Treasurer, 134
Dinnick Crescent. Telephone, Mohawk
1200.
34
Civic Departments — continued
CITY AUDITOR'S OFFICE— Room No. 1108,
Temple Building. Telephone, Adelaide 7315.
a Sholto C. Scott, C.A., City Auditor, 110 St. Clair
Ave. West. Telephone, Hudson 8465.
fa M
H. W. Percy, Deputy City Auditor, 486 Glenlake
Avenue. Telephone, Lyndhurst 4233.
LAW DEPARTMENT— Room No. 210, Second
Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
t* C. M. Colquhoun, K.C., City Solicitor and Coun¬
sel to the Corporation, 57 High Park Avenue.
Telephone, Junction 1054.
. fSO0. 00
W. G. Angus, Deputy City Solicitor, 127 High-
bourne Road. Telephone, Hyland 9122.
WORKS DEPARTMENT— Room No. 10 (Head
Office), Ground Floor, City Hall. Telephone,
Adelaide 7171.
R. C. Harris, Commissioner of Works, 10 Neville
Park Blvd.^ Telephone, Howard 6440.
George G. Powell, B.A.Sc., Deputy City En¬
gineer, 129 Springhurst Avenue. Telephone,
Lakeside 4652.
35
Civic Departments— continued
ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT— Room No. 202,
Second Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171.
W. Geo. Farley, Assessment Commissioner,
125 Rosemount Avenue. Telephone, Ken¬
wood 4636.
Harry Nixon, Deputy Assessment Commissioner,
42 Thorncliffe Avenue. Telephone, Gerrard
5707.
DEPARTMENT OF CITY PLANNING AND CITY
SURVEYING— Third Floor, West Side, Room
333, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
Tracy D. leMay, O.L.S., Commissioner of City
Planning and City Surveyor, 170 Glencairn
Avenue. Telephone, gjidson 0447.
Louis F. Eadie, O.L.S., Deputy City Surveyor, 83
Evans Ave. Telephone, Lyndhurst 5463.
DEPARTMENT OF PROPERTY— Room No. 14,
Ground Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Ade¬
laide 7171.
Graham D. Bland, Commissioner of Property,
51 Hilton Avenue. Telephone, Lakeside
9447. 6> p-4-0: 0-4
J. H. Woods, Deputy Property Commissioner,
149 Hillhurst Boulevard. Telephone, Hyland
1573.
36
Civic Departments — continued
STREET CLEANING DEPARTMENT— Ground
Floor, West Corridor, City Registry Office
Building, 90 Albert Street. Telephone,
Elgin 8369.
H. D. Bradley, Street Commissioner, 204 Wav-
Telephone, Howard 9088.
Grant E. Tayloi'l Deputy Street Commissioner,
21 Coldstream Avenue. Telephone Hudson
2507.
- - - - - J ! -
erley Road. Telephc
* 6 O
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS— Room No. 18,
Ground Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171.
Kenneth S. Gillies, Commissioner of Buildings,
53 Walmsley Boulevard. Telephone, Hyland
2493.
(P . 0-G
Philip Ml Thompson, Deputy Commissioner of
Buildings, 30 Dunbar Road. Telephone,
Randolph 1733.
PARKS DEPARTMENT— Room No. 15, Ground
Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
- r Charles E. Chambers, Commissioner of Parks, 67
Lakeshore Boulevard. Telephone, Lakeside
37
Civic Departments — continued
HEALTH DEPARTMENT— Room No. 312, Third
Floor, City Hall. Telephones, Adelaide 7171
> and 9714.
* Gordon Park Jackson, M.B., D.P.H., Medical
Officer of Health, 135 Tyndall Avenue.
Telephone, Lakeside 0417. 0*0
L. A. Pequegnat, M.B., D.P.H., Deputy Medical
Officer of Health, 131 Lascelles Blvd.
Telephone, Hyland 8223.
PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT— Stewart
Building, 149 College Street. Telephone,
Waverley 1082.
^ A. W. Laver, Commissioner of Public Welfare,
53 Lawrence Crescent. ^Telephone, Hudson
1549. ^
Thomas E. Heron, Deputy Commissioner of Public
Welfare, 1232 Avenue Road. Telephone,
Hudson 4773.
TORONTO MUNICIPAL ABATTOIR— At the foot
of Tecumseth St. Telephone, Waverley 9214.
^ Earl E. Hunt, Commissioner of Toronto Municipal
Abattoir, 17 Kelway Blvd. Telephone, Hudson
8313. —
POLICE HEADQUARTERS — Stewart Building,
149 College
2121.
Street. Telephone, Adelaide
38
Civic Departments — continued
Board of Commissioners of Police
Ral?Lc; Pci: yayor' Chair-man^«fv
Col. A. E. Kirkpatrick, 99 St. Clair Avenue W.
Telephone, Randolph 8989.
His Honor Judge Denton, 16 Killarney Road.
Telephone, Hyland 5621.
Secretary
J. Palmer Kent, K.C., Room 210, City Hall.
Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
Officers
V
Brig. -Gen. Dennis C. Draper, Chief Constable.
Telephone, Adelaide 2121.
George S. Guthrie, Deputy CMef 'Cons^alsie,
405 Armadale Avenue. Telephone, Lynd-
hurst 1486.
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CITY JAIL — Gerrard^Street, east of Don River
Telephone, Gladstone 2496.
Walter L. Rayfield, V.C., Governor, 305 Carlton
Street. Telephone, Kingsdale 9774.
A. Armstrong, Deputy Governor, 62 Jackman
A.venue. Telephone, Hargrave 1235.
39
Civic Departments — continued
FIRE DEPARTMENT — Headquarters, Adelaide
Street Fire Hall. Telephone Nos.: Office,
Adelaide 3579; Fire Halls, Adelaide 2138?
Fire Alarm, Adelaide 2133.
Officers
Chief of
George Sinclair, Chief of Department, __
Withrow Ayenue. Telephone, Gladstone
2903. S? - " ~ ^ - ™
J. O. Poole, Deputy Chief, 70 Hampton Avenue.
Telephone, Gerrard 6138.
INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE ON ZONING—
W. H. Bosley (Chairman); Col. F. H. Marani,
F. Cawthorne, S. R. Frost, W. L. Somerville,
and J. S. Galbraith.
SecreUry-T. D. leMay. ^
Office: Room 333, City Hall.
40
COURT AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS
COUNTY COURT JUDGES' CHAMBERS— Room
No. 107, First Floor, City Hall. Telephone,
Adelaide 7171.
James Parker, Senior Judge, 15 St. Leonard's
Avenue. Telephone, Hudson 5676.
J. Arthur Jackson, Junior Judge, 141 Indian Road.
Telephone, Lombard 0577.
Ian McL. Macdonell, Junior Judge, 15 Ormsby
Crescent. Telephone, Hudson 1547.
T. Herbert Barton, Junior Judge, 22 Wychwood
Park. Telephone, Lakeside 1743.
Albert E. Honeywell, Junior Judge, 64 Lonsdale
Road. Telephone, Hudson 2294.
Frank Denton, Junior Judge, 16 Killarney Road.
Telephone, Hyland 5621.
Egerton Lovering, Junior Judge, 421 Glencairn
Avenue. Telephone, Hudson 4843.
Otto E. Klein, Junior Judge, Walkerton, Ont.
J. Ambrose Shea, Junior Judge, 297 Inglewood
Drive. Telephone, Hyland 3443.
Archibald Perkins, Judges' Secretary. Office
Telephone, Adelaide 7171. Local 125. 174
Balsam Avenue. Telephone, Howard 8153.
41
Court and Judicial Officers — continued
SHERIFF'S OFFICES — Rooms Nos. 113 and 114,
First Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171.
W. H. S. Cane, Sheriff, City of Toronto and
County of York, 362 Walmer Road. Tele¬
phone, Randolph 7372.
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE— Room No.
109, First Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Ade¬
laide 7171.
Arthur S. Winchester, County Court Clerk,
42 Chudleigh Avenue. Telephone, Hudson
8282.
I. H. Kennedy, Deputy County Court Clerk, 777
Indian Road. Telephone, Junction 9724.
SURROGATE COURT REGISTRAR'S OFFICE—
Room No. Ill, First Floor, City Hall. Tele¬
phone, Adelaide 7171.
Arthur S. Winchester, Surrogate Court Registrar,
42 Chudleigh Avenue. Telephone, Hudson
8282.
Geo. P. McHugh, Deputy Registrar, 146 Cran-
brooke Avenue. Telephone, Mayfair 3542.
CLERK OF THE PEACE OFFICE— Room No. 13,
Ground Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adel¬
aide 7171.
Col. Walter W. Denison, Clerk of the Peace, 52
Elm Avenue. Telephone, Midway 5526.
42
Court and Judicial Officers — continued
ASSIZE COURT OFFICE— Room No. 219, Second
Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
H. G. Bristow, Assistant Registrar, Residence,
205 Snowdon Avenue. Telephone, Hudson
4663.
NON-JURY COURT OFFICE— Room No. 217, Sec¬
ond Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171. F. W. Scott, Non-Jury Clerk.
ADMIRALTY COURT, REGISTRAR'S OFFICE—
Room No. 110, First Floor, City Hall. Tele¬
phone, Adelaide 9605.
William J. McWhinney, Registrar, 339 Walmer
Road. Telephone, Randolph 2943.
FIRST DIVISION COURT CLERK'S OFFICE—
Room No. 316, Third Floor, City Hall. Tele¬
phone, Adelaide 7171.
Frank G. J. McDonagh, Clerk, 21 Glenholme
Avenue. Telephone, Melrose 4438.
MAGISTRATES' COURTS AND OFFICES—
Ground and First Floors, City Hall, north-east
corner. (Entrance from James and Albert
Streets.) Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
Daniel O'Connell, K.C., Senior Magistrate,
127 South Drive. Telephone, Midway 8320.
Robert J. Browne, Magistrate, 232 Heath Street
East. Telephone, Hyland 1213.
43
Court and Judicial Officers — continued
Frederick C. Gullen, K.C., Magistrate, 38
Avoca Avenue. Telephone, Hyland 1649.
Robert Forsyth, K.C., Magistrate, 168 Strathallan
Boulevard. Telephone, Hudson 9057.
John L. Prentice, K.C., Magistrate, 132 Alexandra
Blvd. Telephone, Mayfair 4747.
Arthur L. Tinker, J.P., Magistrates' Court Clerk
and Deputy Magistrate, 28 Anderson Avenue.
Telephone, Hyland 0958.
Benjamin B. Jackson, J.P., Deputy Magistrates'
Court Clerk, 18 Crestview Road. Telephone,
Hudson 3090.
CROWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE— Room No. 102,
First Floor, City Hall. Telephone, Adelaide
7171.
James W. McFadden, K.C., Crown Attorney,
408 St. Edmunds Apts. Telephone, Midway
6472.
W. O. Gibson, K.C., Assistant Crown Attorney,
Telephone, Adelaide 7171, 71 Cheritan Ave.
Telephone, Hudson 0112.
Frederick I. Malone, Assistant Crown Attorney,
72 Spadina Road. Telephone, Randolph
8345.
Norman S. Borins, Assistant Crown Attorney, 53
Beatrice St. Telephone, Melrose 3603.
44
Court and Judicial Officers — continued
H. H. Bull, Assistant Crown Attorney, 188 St.
George Street. Telephone, Kingsdale 9818.
TORONTO FAMILY COURT AND OFFICERS—
Registry Office Building, 90 Albert Street.
Telephone, Family Division, Waverley 4635.
Juvenile Division, Adelaide 0709.
Hawley S. Mott, Judge, 27 Austin Crescent.
Telephone, Lakeside 5852.
D. Ross Hossack, K.C., Deputy Judge, 34 Dinnick
Crescent. Telephone, Hudson 2245.
CITY REGISTRY OFFICE— Corner Albert and
Chestnut Streets. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
W. J. C. McCrea, Acting Registrar, Telephone,
Adelaide 7171, Local 245, 65 Benlamond
Avenue. Telephone, Grover 4382.
Charles R. Deacon, K.C., Master of Titles, Tele¬
phone, Adelaide 7171, Local 353, 60 Rosehill
Avenue. Telephone, Kingsdale 9177.
CORONERS' BUILDING— 86 Lombard St., Office
of Chief Coroner, Telephones, Coroner,
Adelaide 6466. Ambulance, Adelaide 6465.
Chief Coroner — Dr. Smirle Lawson, 189 St.
George Street. Telephone, Kingsdale 1200.
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ESTIMATES OF THE CITY OF TORONTO
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
31ST DECEMBER, 1940
(Including Re-Votes)
DEBT CHARGES
Education :
Schools — Public . $1, 103,432
" High . 346,752
Commercial . 1 46, 273
" Technical . . 292,677
$1,889,134
General :
City Buildings . $ 15,425
Fire Halls and Equipment . 85,801
Garbage Disposal . 72,999
Highways in City . 1,193,716
Highways outside City . 199,143
Hospitals and Charitable Grants. . 156,345
Hospitals, Municipal . 38,974
Industrial Farms . 19,743
Libraries, Public . 43,896
Local Improvements —
City's Share . 1,524,415
Local Improvement Rates on Exempt
and City-Owned Property . 188,600
Main Sewers . 732,784
Markets . 8,382,
48
Estimates— continued
Miscellaneous . $ 117, 502
Parks and Playgrounds . 569,364
Police Stations . ' . 34,913
Registry Office — City . 24,929
Unemployment Relief— Direct . 1,958,656
$6,985,587
Special Services Affecting General
Taxation
Abattoir . $ 17,866
Canadian National Exhibition . 260,412
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. . . 154,718
City-owned Radial Railways (in
liquidation) . 21 9,020
Housing . 72,105
Island Ferry Service (under T.T.C.
operation) . 12,733
Waterworks . 1,818,871
Airports — Municipal . 46, 161
$2,601,886
Self-Sustaining Services Not
Affecting Taxation
Local Improvements— Ratepayers'
Share . $1,456,979
Toronto Hydro-Electric System. . . . 2,286,829
Transportation System . 2,895,716
$6,639,524
49
Estimates — continued
Less: Ratepayers' Share of L.I.
Rates on Exempt and City-
Owned Property . $ 1 88, 600
$6,450,924
Total Debt Charges . $17,927,531
APPROPRIATIONS
(Including Re-Votes)
Debts Charges, General (see pages
47 and 48) . $6,985,587
For Taxes Uncollectible, Vacancy
and Other Allowances, Losses, etc. 347,080
CITY COUNCIL
General
Council Remuneration:
Mayor . $1 1,500
Controllers . 20,000
Aldermen . 22, 1 00
- $ 53,600
Mayor's Office — Salaries . 9,320
Mayor's Office — Office Supplies, etc. 850
Auto Service (City Garage) . 5,200
Sundries (Council) . 4,800
Travelling Expenses of Council, etc. . 500
Receptions, Entertainments, etc . 3,000
50
Estimates — continued
Entertaining Champions of Amateur
Sports . $ 1,400
SPECIAL ITEMS
Remembrance Day Service . $ 600
War Protection Measures . 50,000
SPECIAL GRANTS
Canadian Military Institute . $ 784
Canadian National Institute for the
Blind . 10,000
Canadian Red Cross Society . 3,500
Catholic Charities Federation . 2,500
Good Neighbors' Club . 371
Health League of Canada . 5,000
Jewish Federation of Charities . 2,500
National Trades and Labour Day Com¬
mittee . 125
Ontario Good Roads Association .... 50
Ontario Municipal Association (fees) . 200
Ontario Rifle Association . 250
Ontario Safety League . 200
Poppy Fund . 4,000
Toronto Community Gardens' Asso¬
ciation . 250
Toronto Convention and Tourist
Association . 5,000
Trades and Labour Council — Labour
Day . 250
51
Estimates — continued
University Settlement Music School. .$ 100
Veterans' Club Houses, re local
improvements and school rates . . . 2,050
ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT
Salaries . $ 234,850
Office Supplies . 12,650
Auto Service . 600
Properties and Appeals . 4,000
CITY PLANNING AND SURVEYING
DEPARTMENT
Salaries . $ 49,893
Office Supplies . 1,400
Garage Service . 1,700
CITY AUDIT DEPARTMENT
Salaries . $ 99,276
Office Supplies, etc . 3,050
Rental of Office Space . 3,000
Test Check re Unemployment Relief
Records . 5,500
CITY CLERK'S DEPARTMENT
Salaries . $ 44,750
Advertising . 2, 200
52
Estimates- — continued
Printing . $ 9,800
Office Supplies and Sundries . 2,800
Election Expenses . 56,246
Preparing Collectors' Rolls . 20,800
Preparing Vital Statistics . 4,300
Auto Service, City Garage . 300
Court of Revision . 7,500
Stenographer, Board of Control
Office . 1,800
LAW DEPARTMENT
General
Salaries . . . $ 61,505
Law Costs, Counsel Fees, etc . 6,000
Rental of Office Space . 2,800
Expenses of Fair Wage Officer . 100
COMMISSION ON CLAIMS
Compensation for injuries or damages
sustained through defective side¬
walks, streets, etc., and law costs
incidental thereto . $ 7,000
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
General Office
Salaries . $ 124,170
Office Supplies, Equipment and Sun¬
dries .
Auto Service— City Garage
10,900
1,000
53
Estimates — continued
Tax Office
Salaries . $ 151,010
Office Supplies, Equipment and Sun¬
dries . 19,000
License Office
Salaries .
Office Supplies, Equipment and Sun
dries .
Electrical Examining Board .
PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Administration, etc . $ 153,743
House of Industry . 29,000
Charitable and Institutional Grants. . 147,025
Hospitals (Out Patient Clinics) . 146,400
Administration — Unemployment
Relief . 321,300
Unemployment Relief — Non-Admit-
table Items . 46,000
Unemployment Relief — Portion of esti¬
mated cost of Direct Relief, 1940. . 600,000
Statutory
Children's Aid Societies . 276,000
Hospitals . 922,000
Ontario Training Schools . 23,500
Women's Refuges . 400
11,480
6,373
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54
Estimates — continued
Industrial Schools . $ 6,000
Tuberculosis Patients' Care . 45,000
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS
Salaries . $ 116,240
Office Supplies and Sundries . 4,280
Auto Service, City Garage . 4,500
Insurance . 10
GENERAL COURTS AND INQUESTS
City and York County Joint Civil
Justice . $ 90,000
City and York County Joint Criminal
Justice . 50,000
Crown Witnesses . 10,000
Certificates of Lunacy . 2,900
Miscellaneous . 18, 000
Inquests . 21,000
Judge's Secretary . 2,100
$ 194,000
TORONTO FAMILY COURT
Salaries . $ 36,350
Sundries . 2,800
MAGISTRATES' COURTS
Salaries . $ 63,650
Court Stenographers' Fees . 6,000
Office Supplies, Equipment and Sun¬
dries . 5,000
55
Estimates — continued
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
Salaries . $ 1 , 409,337
Clothing (Uniforms) . 21,852
Supplies and Repairs . 27,822
Fuel, Light and Water . . 16,626
Fire Alarm Telegraph . 2,112
Insurance, Fire, Liability, etc . 7,580
Office Supplies and Sundries . 1,580
Fire Hose and Sundry Equipment. . . 3,754
Salary, Hospital Care and Treatment
of Injured Firemen . 4,126
Water Supply for Fire Protection
General Supply . 159,820
High Pressure System Maintenance. 37,000
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
General
General Administration . $ 40, 175
Medical, Dental and Quarantine Ser¬
vice . 249,602
Public Health Nursing . 232,575
Laboratory Service . 30,720
Isolation Hospital Service . 133,175
Food Control Service . 63,325
56
Estimates— continued
Sanitation Service . $ 74,099
Public Dental Clinics . 3,000
Summer Camps . 2,500
Insulin . 4,200
PARKS DEPARTMENT
Maintenance
Allan Gardens . $ 15,675
Bathing and Checking Stations . 11,465
^Exhibition Park . 64,827
Forestry Division . 61,164
General Administration . 84,761
High Park . 41,004
Insurance . 6,190
Island Park . 42,212
Mechanical Division . 9,531
Reservoir Park . 15,895
Rinks and Slides . 89,364
Riverdale Park . 32,649
Riverdale Zoo . 33,398
Sundry Parks . 248,433
Supervised Playgrounds . 144,062
Workmen's Compensation . 5,433
$ 906,063
*Less 50% applicable to Canadian
National Exhibition under Special
Services . 32,413
$ 873,650
57
Estimates — continued
Police Department
Maintenance
Salaries . $2, 1 84,740
Clothing and Equipment . 35,100
Miscellaneous . 29,747
Mounted Police . 7,800
Signal Service . 10,411
Traffic and Automatic Signals . 12,861
Motor Vehicles and Bicycles . 57,217
Fuel, Light and Water . 14,487
Stationery, etc . 11,800
Property Department
General
General Administration — Salaries,
Auto Service and Office Supplies . . $ 68,900
City Hall-— Maintenance and Up¬
keep . 136,927
Telephone Exchange . 6,350
Firehalls — Furnishings, Repairs, etc.. 9,200
Police Stations — Repairs, etc . 4,500
Health Department Properties — Re¬
pairs . 1,500
Detention Home . 9,300
Registry Office . 21,941
Public Lavatories . 11,988
Harrison Baths . 15,648
58
Estimates — continued
O'Neill Baths . $ 6,467
St. Lawrence Market . 21,916
St. Patrick's Market . 50
Weigh-Scales . 9,432
Insurance . 14,500
Tower Clocks . 1,655
City Properties (rented) — Repairs. . . . 28,518
Workmen's Compensation . 1,200
Stewart Building, No. 149 College
Street, Maintenance . 27,085
Police and Fire Depts. Garage . 5,795
Weed Cutting . 3,500
Administration of Justice
Jail . 95,378
Public Lighting
Lighting Streets, Parks, etc . 496,800
Street Cleaning Department
Administration . $ 63,800
Street Cleaning . 321,100
Refuse Collection . 788,800
Refuse Disposal . 228,950
Stables and Yards . 63,500
Garage . 93,500
Insurance . 11,000
Shop . 36,400
Plant . 24,000
Workmen's Compensation . 15,000
59
Estimates — continued
Works Department
Roadway Section
General Roadway Repairs . $
Asphalt Repairs .
Concrete Sidewalk Repairs .
Snow Cleaning Maintenance .
Area and Permit Branch .
Rental and Yard Sites .
Cindering Grades, etc .
Sewer Section
Sewage Disposal and Pumping Sta¬
tions .
Reclaiming Sludge Areas .
Inspection, Flushing, etc .
Emergency Sewer Repairs .
Private Drain Repairs, Chargeable
to City .
Special Items
McRoberts and Northland Ave. —
Sewer Privileges .
Langley Ave. — Relief Sewer .
North Toronto Sewage Disposal
Works — Replacing Plates, etc .
Railway and Bridge Section
Bridge Repairs and Maintenance. . . .
Level Crossings .
89,882
213,292
38,596
17,500
11,535
390
31,590
160,521
21,843
70,969
8,731
30,627
326
3,705
5,000
26,944
40,054
60
Estimates — continued
Sundries
Auto Service, City Garage . $ 8,150
Insurance . 8,577
Workmen's Compensation . 10,150
Street Drinking Fountains — Water
Supply . 14,904
Municipal Abattoir
Maintenance
General Administration . $ 1 6, 1 00
Cold Storage . 3,950
Killing Floor and Cooler . 21,500
Boiler Room . 25,500
Handling By-Products . 20,100
Cattle Yard . 5,800
Insurance . 1,100
Special Items
General Repairs, Painting, etc . 3,000
Installing Defrosting System . 1,200
Retiring Allowances and Grants . 2,500
Debt Charges
Interest . 12,519
Sinking Fund . 4,567
Instalment . 780
61
Estimates — continued
Waterworks —
Works Department Section
Pumping Stations and Water Supply
Filtration Plant Maintenance . $ 237,846
John Street Pumping Station . 333,192
High Level Pumping Station . 124,697
Riverdale Pumping Station . 19,866
Victoria Park Filtration Plant . 16,859
East Toronto Pumping Station . 13,750
Island Water Supply . 7,389
Reservoirs . 5,238
Chlorination and Elimination of Taste . 54,362
Intakes and Buoys . 8,044
Rental of Water Lots . 711
Marine Plant . 24,674
Distribution
Supervision and Maintenance of
Mains, Hydrants, Services, Meters,
etc . 355,143
New Meters — Replacements . 3,425
New Hydrants and Valves . 900
Rental of Site — Western Mainten¬
ance Station . 2, 600
Sundries
Insurance . 19,973
Workmen's Compensation . 4,000
Garage Service (Depreciation) . 998
62
Estimates— continued
Waterworks Revenue Office
Treasury Department
Salaries . $ 1 08, 500
Office Supplies, Equipment and
Sundries . 8,000
Auto Service, City Garage . 2,800
Waterworks Retiring Allowances and Grants
Works Department . 35,984
Treasury Department . 4,992
Waterworks Debt Charges
Interest . 1,105,990
Sinking Fund . 111,202
Instalment . 601,679
Canadian National Exhibition
Maintenance of Buildings (including
Insurance) . $ 34,880
Maintenance of Exhibition Grounds
Applicable to C.N.E. (50%) . 32,413
Casual Rental Expenses of Buildings,
etc . 1,065
Insurance. . . 12,500
Debt Charges
Interest . 98,196
Sinking Fund . 6,216
Instalment . 156,000
63
Estimates — continued
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
Live Stock Arena (Coliseum)
Maintenance and Upkeep . $ 6,623
Insurance . 2,267
Debt Charges
Interest . 53,226
Instalment . 101,492
Island Ferry Service
(Under T.T.C. Operation)
Net Deficit to be borne by City (In¬
cluding Debt Charges) . $ 42, 175
Radial Railways
(In Liquidation)
Net Deficit to be borne by City (Debt
Charges) . $ 219,020
Toronto Harbour Commissioners
City's Liability on Guaranteed Bonds . $ 677,759
Airports — Municipal
Net Deficit to be borne by City (In¬
cluding Debt Charges) . $ 63, 1 32
Housing Commission
Debt Charges
Interest . $ 3,105
Instalment . 69,000
64
Estimates — continued
At Large
Financial Items
Federal Government Stamp Tax . $ 10,000
Bankers' Charges for Redemption of
Coupons . 4,200
Exchange . 187,500
Interest . 111,000
Retiring Allowances and Grants
Audit Department . 624
Assessment Department . 624
City Clerk's Department . 4,888
City Planning and Surveying Depart¬
ment . 624
Department of Buildings . 2,496
Health Department . 15,288
Law Department. . 572
Mayor's Office . 624
Parks Department . 17,348
Police Department . 1,352
Property Department . 33,948
Street Cleaning Department . 85,000
Treasury Department — General . 8,112
Works Department— General . 30,395
Firemen's Benefit Fund . 27,300
Firemen's Widow's and Orphans'
Death Benefits . 2,500
Police Benefit Fund . 10,000
Police Benefit Fund By-law 13273. . . . 143,941
65
Estim ates — continued
Toronto and York Roads Commission
Amount Payable by City — General. .$ 40,000
Toronto Harbour Commissioners
Annual Charges on Reclamation Im¬
provements . $ 93, 436
Life Saving Service
Maintenance and Equipment, includ¬
ing Salaries . $ 71,000
Transportation Track Allowance
Pavement Repairs . $ 70,000
Standard of Housing — By-law No.
14466 . 16,305
T.T.C. Settlement By-law 14843
Annual Charge . 60,000
Toronto Housing Company Limited —
City's Liability on Guaranteed
Bonds . 23,000
Miscellaneous Items
Art Gallery of Toronto— Grant . $ 30,000
Registry Office — Office Supplies and
Re- W riting Records . 2, 400
Land Titles Office Deficit . 3,400
Registry Office Deficit . 500
66
Estimates — continued
Snow Cleaning — City Unimproved
Properties . $ 7,318
Weed Cutting — City Unimproved
Properties . 5, 500
University of Toronto — Endowment. 6,000
Workmen's Compensation Board —
Expense Assessment (R.S.O., 1914,
Chap. 25, Sec. 103) . 1,800
Toronto Humane Society re Dog
Catching and Operation of Pound. 16,800
Toronto Industrial Commission . 1 3,248
Sunnyside Free Bathing Station-
Transportation . 2,000
Public Libraries
Maintenance . $ 475,744
Board o£ Education
Maintenance
Public Schools . $5,411,534
Collegiate Institutes . 1,271,434
Technical Schools . 983,934
High Schools of Commerce . 628,103
General Administration . 403,021
Debt Charges
Public Schools . 1,103,432
Collegiate Institutes . 346,752
Technical Schools . 292,677
High Schools of Commerce . 146,273
67
Estimates — continued
Separate Schools
Maintenance . $ 357, 997
Debt Charges on Debentures Issued by
Separate School Board
Interest and Principal on Debentures . 179,636
Deficit brought forward from 1939. . . . 174,712
Estimated Total Expenditure . $38,684,628
68
General Revenue Other Than Taxation
Administration of Justice
Family Court Fees . $ 200
Court Fines and Fees . 340,000
Government and County Share re
Courts . 65,000
General Licenses . 295,000
Beverage Rooms — City's Share from
Provincial Government . 41,000
General Rental from City Property, etc.
Business Property . 1 45,000
Island . 60,000
Markets . 35,000
Residential Property . 46,000
Sundry . 37,000
Sewer Connections . 19,000
Sundry Parks . 18,000
Mortgage Tax Revenue . 9,000
Sundry
Miscellaneous, including unclaimed
amount written off . 21,200
Financial Items
Taxation Percentages in Excess of
Discounts . 41 4,000
Completed Local Improvements Ad-
j ustments Reserve . 63,000
Consumers' Gas Company . 1,500
69
Revenue — continued
Department of Buildings
Banner Sign fees . $ 100
Plan Examining Fees . 14,000
Dry Cleaning Licenses . 6,000
Elevator Licenses . 6,300
Fire Escape Inspection Fees . 500
Bond Fees . 700
Illuminated Sign Inspection Fees . 30,400
Audit Department
Audit Fees from Outside Boards . 8,057
City Planning and Surveying Department
Frontage Tax . 100
Survey Fees . 2,650
City Clerk
Marriage License Fees . 4,500
Fire Department
Miscellaneous . 500
Health Department
Isolation Hospital Fees . 20,000
Miscellaneous Fees . 700
Provincial Grants re Health Services . 2,000
F umigation F ees . 1 , 200
Ambulance Fees . 500
70
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Law Department
Conveyancing Fees . $ 900
Parks Department
Bathing and Checking Fees . 4,000
Miscellaneous . 3,200
Police Department
Miscellaneous . 5,000
Property Department
Public Bath Fees . 8,000
Miscellaneous . 725
Weigh-House Fees . 6,375
Detention Home . 600
Administration of Justice, Govern¬
ment and County Share . 35,000
Street Cleaning Department
Removal of Waste from F actories . 500
Miscellaneous . 2,000
Treasury Department
Official Fees . 2,500
Redemption of Coupons . 3,000
Tax Sale Commission . 3,000
Miscellaneous . 1,500
71
Revenue — continued
Works Department
Gasoline Standard Rentals . $ 5, 000
Street Areas . 46,000
Rond Fees . 250
Sewage Treatment Revenue . 6,000
Distribution Accounts Adjustment .... 7, 1 50
Municipal Abattoir
Killing Floor, Cooler and Cold Storage
Charges, Space Rental, Profit from
Sale of By-Products, etc . 1 35,000
Toronto Housing Commission
Interest and Principal on Properties
Sold . 70,000
Waterworks
Water Rates from Public . 3,149,300
Water Supply for Civic Departments . 57,084
W ater Supply for Fire Protection . 159,820
Rental from Miscellaneous Property. . 3,700
Canadian National Exhibition
Operating Surplus, including amount
to meet Debt Charges . 200,000
Casual rentals — Space, Chairs, etc. . . 2,000
New stables, Exhibition Park . 26,000
72
Revenue — continued
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
Live Stock Arena (Coliseum) Rent
from C.N.E . $ 12,000
Live Stock Arena (Coliseum), Sundry 3,200
Live Stock Arena (Annex) . 70,000
Provincial Government Subsidy
One Mill on General Assessment . 883,226
Revenue From Taxation
School Tax
General Tax . 23.70 $20,934,151
Public School Supporters ... 1 1 .45 1 0,400,635
Separate " " 15.50 724,635
Taxation . $32,059,42 1
Estimated Total Revenue . $38,679,628
Reserve for deferred Expenditure
brought forward . 5,000
$38,684,628
73
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RETURNS
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Result o£ Voting March 26th, 1940
Broadview :
Soldier
Vote
Total
Thomas L. Church .
457
14,215
George Gresswell .
46
7,675
George Grube .
19
2,754
Danforth :
Joseph Henry Harris. . . .
269
11,850
Lewis Duncan .
72
8,947
Davenport :
John R. MacNicol .
375
14,879
Neil Cameron .
91
11,140
Eglinton :
Frederick George
Hoblitzel .
78
17,126
Richard Langton Baker ....
279
16,926
Greenwood :
Denton Massey .
395
14,649
Thomas Reilly .
49
7,467
Bertram Leavens .
28
3,430
74
Parliamentary Electio*n Returns—
continued
Soldier
Vote
Total
High Park :
Alexander James
Anderson .
220
12,266
Alan John Patrick Cameron.
50
12,061
Carroll Langford Coburn . . .
14
1,777
Parkdale :
Herbert A. Bruce .
383
13,450
John P. Travers .
80
12,408
Rosedale :
Harry R. Jackman .
359
12,508
J. Louis Shannon .
109
10,386
Mrs. Nora Dymond .
14
988
St. Paul’s:
Douglas Gooderham
Ross .
456
15,685
James Hendrick Rooney. . . .
142
14,974
Spadina :
Samuel Factor .
96
18,960
George Gooderham
Blackstock .
290
13,036
Stewart Smith .
19
2,739
75
Parliamentary Election Returns —
continued
Soldier
Vote
Total
Trinity :
Arthur W. Roebuck .
92
14,631
George Reginald Geary . . .
267
11,247
Douglas Stewart .
15
1,059
York East:
Robert Henry McGregor.
389
16,604
Robert A. Irwin .
92
12,344
Edward Biglow Jolliffe .
23
4,961
York North:
William Pate Mulock. . . .
66
10,707
George M. Dix .
104
8,862
York South:
Alan Cockeram .
319
15,247
Farquhar J. MacRae .
107
12,816
Joseph W. Noseworthy .
31
5,391
York West:
Agar Rodney Adamson. .
217
12,832
Chris. J. Bennett .
76
12,113
David Lewis .
16
3,794
76
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF CANADA
WHO RESIDE IN OR NEAR TORONTO
(According to Seniority)
Honourable Sir Allen Aylesworth, P.C., K.C.,
K.C.M.G. 21 Walmer Road.
Honourable Wm. H. McGuire, K.C. Residence
Dawes Road, York County.
Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, P.C. 57 Castle
Frank Crescent.
Honourable Duncan Marshall, 44 Humbercrest
Boulevard.
Honourable Salter A. Hayden, K.C., 36 Alex¬
andra Wood.
MEMBERS OF THE KING’S PRIVY
COUNCIL FOR THE DOMINION OF
CANADA RESIDENT IN TORONTO
(Listed according to Seniority)
Right Honourable Sir William Mulock, P.C.,
K.C.M.G.
Honourable Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth, P.C.,
K.C.M.G.
Right Honourable Sir Thomas White, K.C.M.G.,
P.C.
Right Honourable Arthur Meighen, P.C.
Honourable Newton Wesley Rowell, P.C.
Honourable Sir Henry Lumley Drayton, P.C., K.B.
77
Members of the King’s Privy Council —
continued
Honourable Peter Heenan, P.C.
Honourable Wesley Ashton Gordon, P.C.
Honourable George Howard Ferguson, P.C.
Honourable Robert Charles Matthews, P.C.
Honourable George Reginald Geary, P.C.
Honourable James Earl Lawson, P.C.
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE
Result of Voting, October 6th, 1937.
Beaches :
Thomas A. Murphy . 7,915
Ernest Bray . 7, 1 90
Stanley Elliott . 3,611
Bellwoods :
Arthur Wentworth Roebuck*.. 11,772
John Noble . 5,060
Carl Neilson . 298
Bracondale :
Lionel Conacher . 7,558
Russell Nesbitt . 7,529
Murray Cotterill . 1,997
*Mr. A. W. Roebuck resigned his seat being a
candidate for the House of Commons at Ottawa
in Trinity Riding.
78
Parliamentary Election Returns —
continued
Dovercourt :
William Duckworth . 10,396
Robert R. Leslie . 8,393
John Kelly . 2,668
John Berry . 284
Robert Harding . 159
Eglinton :
Harold James Kirby.. . 14,809
Leslie E. Blackwell . 13,705
T. Leslie Teeter . 1,861
High Park:
William Alexander Baird . 9,443
Burton A. Ritchie . 7,291
Carroll Langford Coburn . 3,380
Parkdale (By-election October 5th, 1938):
William J. Stewart* . 9,058
Russell Harvey . 3,569
Robert Harding . 272
George Thomson . 93
*On the death of Fred C. McBrien, K.C.,
William J. Stewart was elected in his room and
stead.
79
Parliamentary Election Returns —
continued
Riverdale :
William Arthur Summerville ... II ,082
Robert A. Allen . 8,321
John W. Buckley . 4,477
Edward Farrell . 94
St. Andrew:
John J. Glass . 6,434
Joseph B. Salsberg . 6,283
Nathan Phillips . 3,888
Harry Simon . 878
St. David:
Allan A. Lamport . 7,703
Wilfrid Heighington . 6,864
William Dennison . 2,315
Henry Glendinning . 850
William Campbell . 107
St. George:
Ian T. Strachan . 10,071
C. Alfred Maguire . 8,657
Jean Laing . 1,490
St. Patrick:
F. Fraser Hunter . 6,161
A. Kelso Roberts . 5,489
Felis Lazarus . 947
G. N. Saunders . 119
Woodbine:
Goldwin Corlett Elgie . 9,756
Ferd Sturgeon . 7,425
Bertram E. Leavens . 5,152.
80
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Result of Voting, January 1st, 1940.
FOR MAYOR
Ralph Carrette Day . 62,019
Lewis Duncan . 58,432
FOR CONTROLLERS
(Names in Bold Face declared Elected)
Frederick J. Conboy . 79,361
J. Douglas McNish . 67,375
Fred Hamilton . 60,687
William J. Wadsworth . 56,365
D. A. Balfour . 43,687
Stewart Smith . 19,798
Robert Harding . 6,609
FOR ALDERMEN
(Names in Bold Face declared Elected)
Ward No. 1
Gordon J. Millen . 8,847
Frank M. Johnston . 8,156
Charles W. Minett . 2,069
Harry Bell . 1,717
William E. Richards . 1,010
81
Municipal Election Returns — continued
Ward No. 2
J. Louis Shannon . 5,834
Adelaide Mary Plumptre . 5,581
S. Tupper Bigelow . 2,723
Winston George Harris . 941
Matt Wilson . 564
James Arthur McCausland . 465
Ward No. 3
John Stevenson Simmons . 3,987
Percy J. Quinn . 3,910
Jean Laing . 1,217
Ward No. 4
Nathan Phillips . 5,428
Robert H. Saunders . 4,903
Claude Pearce . 2,773
Joseph B. Salsberg . 2,156
Louis J. Zuker . 1,382
Lloyd Merritt . 362
Ward No. 5
Ernest C. Bogart . 9,231
Charles M. Carrie . 7,692
Fred. Collins . 2,755
Pat. V. Roach . 1,589
Charles S. Lewis . 1,562
Charles Kerr . 1,192
Charles H. Graham . 577
82
Municipal Election Returns — continued
Ward No. 6
William V. Muir . 8,513
Donald C. MacGregor . 8,219
Mrs. George E. Robinson . 6,568
George P. Granell . 5,794
Jack Bennett . 2,613
Richard Gordon Jones . 1,140
William Logie . 734
Ward No. 7
Charles Rowntree . 6,399
H. M. Davy . 5,281
Frank G. I. Whetter . 2,892
Harold H. Clarke . 802
Harry Bradley . 548
Ward No. 8
Ernest Bray . 9,800
Walter A. Howell . 8,994
Hiram Emerson McCallum . 6,431
R. Gifford Baker . 4,043
Ward No. 9
Donald M. Fleming . 8,323
John M. Innes . 7,376
Harry B. Kennedy . 6,834
William G. Ellis . 4,495
Douglas Hodder . 387
83
BOARD OF EDUCATION ELECTIONS
Result of Voting, January 1st, 1940.
(Names in Bold Face declared Elected)
Ward No. 1
Leslie H. Saunders . 6,589
Alex A. Stewart . 6,532
Gordon W. Armstrong . 3,416
Arthur Brown . 1,656
Ward No. 2
Edwin A. Hardy . 4,262
William Dennison . 4,082
W. B. Amy . . . 1,900
Lancelot A. S. Dack . 1,427
Charles A. Tierney . 1,338
Ward No. 3
W. R. Shaw . 2,769
Lawrence Echardt . 1,226
Margaret Reid Richardson . 1,036
Isabel Wighton Ross . 733
Morgan L. Piper . 721
Herbert Thomas Owen . 456
Broadus Farmer . 322
Edward Bind . 286
Baron DeL'Eveille . 189
84
Board of Education — continued
Ward No. 4
Herbert Orliffe . 3,777
William Thomas Lawson . 3,072
M. Shelly Millstone . 2,984
Allington Tupper Bowlby . 2,235
Aubrey O. Derbyshire . 1,483
Ward No. 5
Harold Menzies . 5,655
James P. F. Williams . 5,302
Margarette R. Luckock . 3,665
John MacFarlane . 3,231
Harry Thompson . 2,054
Ward No. 6
Mrs. Fred G. McBrien . 10,101
Frank Ward . 7,489
Harold Watson Timmins . 5,818
Harry Boyd Branscombe . 3,345
Ward No. 7
William H. Butt (acclamation)
Mrs. Grace McCullagh (acclamation)
85
Board of Education — continued
Ward No. 8
Loftus H. Reid . 6,624
J. E. Stanley Fenwick . 4,739
Robert E. Jones . 3,520
Alex. Hodgins . 1,858
George K. McArthur . 1,546
Bass Dawson . 1,483
Chris. W. Halls . 1,473
Ward No. 9
Charles R. Conquergood . 10,802
Robert Alan Sampson . 8,864
Percy Jones . 3,169
86
COURT OF REVISION
W. Assheton Smith, Commissioner.
The Assessment Rolls are returned and
the Court sits to hear appeals against the general
assessment of the City upon the following days:
IflBbuJiZSbZ
Date for Return Date of Commencing
Ward
of Roll
Court of Revision
7
March 1st
March 27th
8
March 19th
April 22nd
1
April 16th
May 20th
6
May 17th
June 17th
2
May 28th
July 4th
5
July 11th
August 12th
9
July 18th
September 3rd
4
August 9th
September 9th
3
August 30th
October 7th
Appeals must be filed within ten days after
the return of the Assessment Roll, as stated on the
notice of assessment, and must be lodged with
the Assessment Commissioner.
The Court also sits from time to time through¬
out the year to hear appeals in respect of local
improvement works, vacancy allowances and
business tax adjustments.
The City Clerk is the Clerk of the Court.
87
AREA OF CITY AND STATISTICS RE
STREETS, SEWAGE DISPOSAL, WATER
WORKS, ETC., AS OF DECEMBER 31st,
1939.
Area of City, not including portion of land
covered by water, is about 34 square miles.
MILEAGE OF STREETS, ETC.:
Streets . 575.916
Lanes, approximately . 157.751
Paved Roadways (94.5%) . 544.191
U nimpro ved Roadways . 31.72
Paved Lanes . 44.05
Sidewalks . 912.986
Bridges (53) . 3.929
Gas Mains . 733
Toronto Transportation Commission
Street Railway Single Track on
City Streets . 202.528
SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL:
Mileage of Sewers, Sanitary . 694.21
Storm . 69.58
Imperial
Gallons
Main Sewage Disposal Works
Daily Average Flow, 1939 . . . 63,993,000
North Toronto Sewage Treatment
Works
Daily Average Flow, 1939 . . . 6,034,000
Total Daily Average Flow, 1939. 70,027,000
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Area of City and Street Statistics-
continued
WATER WORKS:
Mileage of Water Mains,
Domestic . 733.51
High Pressure Fire Sys¬
tem . 17.51
Hydrants, Domestic Pressure Fire.. 7,991
High Pressure Fire . 279
Water Main Stop Valves . 10,080
Water Main Check Valves . 322
Imperial
Gallons
27,112,100,000
116,810,000
25,496,390,000
69,850,000
Water Consumed in City
and Supplied to adjoin¬
ing Municipalities in
1939 .
Maximum for One Day (July
8th, 1936) .
Water Consumed in City in
1939 .
Average Daily Consumption
in City, 1939 .
Average Daily Consumption
per Capita in City (based
upon population of
649,123) in 1939 .
108
89
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
The number of births, marriages and deaths
in the City of Toronto during the year 1939, as
shown by the Registration returns, is as follows:
Births . 10,553
Marriages . 8,057
Deaths . 7,450
All births and marriages must be registered
at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall (Room 21A),
within thirty days from the occurrence thereof.
Physicians attending are required to send in
notices of births, and parents or occupants of
dwelling where births occur are required to
register same.
Deaths must be registered at the City Clerk's
office (Room 21A, City Hall) or at any police
station before a permit to bury can be issued.
Physicians attending are required to certify
as to deaths.
Neglect or failure to send in notice in either
case renders parties liable to a fine not exceeding
$10 and costs.
Number of marriage licenses issued by the
City Clerk in 1939, 7,360.
Clergymen officiating are required to register
marriages.
Marriage licenses issued during office hours.
Office, Room No. 21, Ground Floor, City Hall,
west side. Telephone, Adelaide 7171.
90
DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING
The Department of Street Cleaning was
organized on December 17th, 1888, for the
purpose of developing a system for the regular
collection and disposal of ashes and household
waste material, and the cleaning of public streets
and lanes.
Since that time, the Department has developed
from the single horse cart for the collection of
refuse, to the present modern type motor truck,
and from the horse-drawn rotary broom to the
modem method of motor flushing.
The activities now performed by the Depart¬
ment embrace the cleaning of public thorough¬
fares, the collection and disposal of ashes and
household waste material, the cleaning of catch
basins, the oiling of unimproved roadways and
the removal of snow.
For collection purposes the area of the city is
divided into 25 districts, which are again sub¬
divided into 3 sections, thus permitting a twice-
weekly collection to all parts of the city.
200 vehicles are engaged regularly in the
collection services, and during 1939 275,000
tons of ashes and 130,000 tons of garbage were
collected. The cost of this service amounts to 7c.
per collection call, or $7.80 per building per
year. There is an average of 3.07 tons of refuse
removed from each building annually.
91
Department of Street Cleaning — continued
All garbage and combustible waste material is
disposed of by incineration at three high-
temperature garbage disposal plants. The first
incinerator was erected in 1917 on the Don
Roadway, at Dundas Street. This plant has a
capacity of 3C0 tons per day. In 1923 the second
plant was constructed on Wellington Street, near
Niagara Street. The capacity of this plant is
400 tons per day. The above plants are manu¬
ally operated, that is, the material is received on
the charging floor, then drawn into the furnaces
by hand labour. The Symes Road Incinerator,
which was placed in operation in 1934, is the
crane-operated type, that is, the material is
dumped into a receiving pit, then lifted by two
clam-bucket cranes, which discharge the garb¬
age directly into the furnaces.
There are 575 miles of streets, 543 of which
are paved and receive regular street cleaning
services. During the summer season of 1939,
135,000 cubic yards of litter were removed from
the streets, while 9,500 cubic yards of cleanings
were removed from the catch basins located on
these thoroughfares. Six motor flushers are used
nightly in the downtown area and on main
thoroughfares. During 1939 the total street
mileage flushed amounted to 9,500,
92
PUBLIC HEALTH
The Administrative Offices of the Department
of Public Health are located on the Third Floor,
City Hall; telephone, Adelaide 7171.
DISTRICT OFFICES
The Divisions of Medical Services and Public
Health Nursing discharge their functions of city¬
wide health services through 8 District Offices,
each under the joint direction of a District Medical
Officer and District Superintendent of Nurses.
District Offices are located strategically from
west to east over the City as follows:
Runnymede — 354 Keele St . JU. 8959
Parkdale — 53 Argyle St . ME. 5709
Hillcrest — 643 Markham St . ME. 8035
Yorkville — 135 Davenport Rd . KI. 4369
University — 408 Huron St . RA. 3116
Moss Park— 18 Gifford St . MI. 8581
Riverdale — 281 Broadview Ave . HA. 2185
Scarboro — 299 Main St . . GR. 1144
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Highlights in Toronto's health effort for the
year 1939 are to be found in lowered mortality
rates for tuberculosis, diphtheria and infants'
diseases, all causes of death most directly affected
by preventive practice, the control of which is
usually accepted as an index of a health depart¬
ment's efficiency.
93
Public Health — continued
The fall in mortality from tuberculosis for 1939
may be considered remarkable. The rate for all
forms of the disease, including deaths of Toronto
residents in outside sanatoria, was 30.0 per
100,000 of population, one of the lowest records
on this Continent for cities of comparable size to
Toronto. This figure is substantially lower than
that of 37.4 for 1938 or 36.9 for 1937, represent¬
ing a 19 per cent, betterment of any record to
date. Tuberculosis mortality is to-day but one-
half of what it was in 1930 and since 1910 has
fallen 77 per cent. At one time chief among the
principal causes of death, tuberculosis is now
relegated to seventh position.
Diphtheria incidence continues to decline,
there being but 7 cases reported in 1939, with
one death. In no instance had diphtheria toxoid
been previously administered as a protective
measure. In the space of 10 years diphtheria has
been reduced from 1022 cases and 64 deaths in
1929 to the present figure for 1939 of 7 cases and
1 death, a result due primarily to the active
diphtheria toxoid campaign conducted by the
Department of Public Health throughout the City
in the period mentioned.
Infant mortality records a new low, all-time
record for Toronto for the third successive year,
94
Public Health — continued
there being but 46.5 deaths within a year of
birth, to each 1000 living births as compared with
51.1 deaths in 1938, an improvement of 9 per cent.
Infant mortality rates have shown a reduction of
approximately 14 per cent, in the last five years
and the present figure, 46.5, is 38 per cent, below
that of 1930.
These favourable circumstances are all the
more noteworthy in view of a rising tendency in
the general death rate during the early months of
1939, due to a prevalence of influenza and
pneumonia, together with an accompanying
increase in mortality from diseases common to
older persons. Improvement was noted as the
year progressed, resulting in a final general
death rate of but 11.0 per 1000 population, a
figure but slightly in excess of the 10.8 of the
previous year 1938. Toronto's lowest general
death rate was 10.1 recorded in 1934. Deaths of
non-residents occurring in the City contribute
largely to the crude death rate and in 1939
accounted for nearly 16 per cent, of the total
mortality.
Toronto's birth rate of 15.8 per 1000 popula¬
tion is lower by 3 per cent, than the 1938 rate of
16.3. With the exception of 1937, when a slight
gain was shown, there has been a continuous
decline in the birth rate over the past seven years.
95
Public Health — continued
Maternal mortality recorded a figure of 5.4
per 1000 living births and while somewhat in
excess of the exceptionally low figure of 3.8
achieved in 1938, here again deaths of non¬
residents affect the crude rate. When complete
re-allocation according to residence is available,
Toronto's resident maternal mortality rate should
be close to 4.4 per 1000 living births, a reasonably
satisfactory figure compared with previous years.
Reported cases of scarlet fever and measles
were unusually high in 1939, with 2248 and 8851
cases respectively. Fatal terminations were
recorded in 25 cases of scarlet fever and in 8
cases of measles. There were 24 cases of typhoid
and paratyphoid recorded for the year, resulting
in two deaths, an incidence of 5 below the aver¬
age number for the past 5 years. Fourteen of
these cases were definitely traced to outside
sources of infection. Seventeen cases of polio¬
myelitis (infantile paralysis) were recorded for
the year, well within the normal expectancy for
this disease, even though it represented an
increase of 8 cases over the number reported in
1938. Not a single case of smallpox was re¬
ported for the year, thus maintaining the record
of no cases since 1932 and no deaths since 1927.
The aforementioned statistics, briefly pre¬
sented, serve to indicate the general health
96
Public Health — continued
picture of the City at large for 1939, a record
generally satisfactory, in the creation of which
the Department of Public Health gratefully
acknowledges the contribution of effort by all
those who, individually or collectively, had a part
therein.
CIVIC AMBULANCES
Telephone, Adelaide 6465
The Civic Ambulance Service, under the
control of the Department of Public Health, is
located at the Coroners' Building, 86 Lombard
Street.
A limited service is provided, restricted in
scope to answering calls of an emergent nature
such as street accidents and similar happenings;
the transportation of non-emergent cases to a
public hospital when the hospital maintenance of
such person is to be at public expense, i.e., a
City Order case, and the transportation of all
cases of communicable disease. Separate
ambulances and staffs are provided for the
respective services mentioned.
All calls of whatever nature should be directed
to the Coroners' Building, telephone, Adelaide
6465, where the attendant on duty will allocate
the call if it is within the above categories, or
97
Public Health — continued
otherwise advise the enquirer if service cannot be
given.
In case of accident, the patient, if of adult age
and conscious, has the right to select the hospital
or other destination within the City to which it is
desired to be taken. In the case of children or
those in an unconscious condition, a physician, if
one is in attendance at the scene of accident, will
undertake direction of the ambulance. In the
absence of a physician, this duty then devolves on
any police officer present, and failing either of
these authorities the ambulance crew will then
take responsibility for removal of the injured
person.
In cases where a person is found dead and a
physician has not been in immediate attendance,
the Chief Coroner's office, 86 Lombard Street —
telephone, Adelaide 6466— should be called
without delay.
PUBLIC HOSPITALS
The Public Hospitals in the City are located
as follows:
Toronto General Hospital, 101 College St.
St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond St.
Hospital for Sick Children, 67 College St.
Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst St.
St. John's Hospital, 28 Major St.
98
Public Health — continued
St. Joseph's Hospital, 1830 Queen St. W.
Women's College Hospital, 74 Grenville St.
Salvation Army Grace Hospital, 133 Bloor
St. East.
Toronto East General Hospital, Coxwell and
Sammon Avenues (East York).
Mt. Sinai Hospital, 100 Yorkville Ave.
Wellesley Hospital, Homewood Place.
Lockwood Clinic Hospital, 300 Bloor St. E.
Mothercraft Centre, 84 Wellesley St.
OTHER HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS
Riverdale Isolation Hospital, Gerrard St. East
and St. Matthews Road.
Toronto Hospital for Consumptives, Button-
wood Avenue (Mt. Dennis).
I.O.D.E. Preventorium, Sheldrake Blvd.
Hospital for Incurables, 130 Dunn Ave.
Mercy Hospital for Incurables 38 Sunnyside
Ave.
Home for Incurable Children, 278 Bloor St. E.
Ontario Hospital for Insane, 999 Queen St. W.
Psychiatric Hospital, Surrey Place.
Hillcrest Convalescent Home, Bathurst St.
and Davenport Rd.
Christie Street Hospital for Soldiers, 352-390
Christie St.
99
POPULATION— AS RETURNED BY
ASSESSORS
1834 . 9,254
1844 . 18,420
1854 . 38,480
1864 . 45,156
1874 . 68,678
1884 . 105,211
1894 . 174,309
1904 . 226,365
1914 . 470,151
1924 . 542,417
1934 (CENTENNIAL YEAR) . 629,285
1935 . 638,271
1936 . 645,462
1937 . 648,309
1938 . 647,803
1939 . 649,123
POPULATION, 1939, BY WARDS
Ward No. 1 . 72,816
" " 2 . 60,724
" " 3 . 42,424
" " 4 . 68,410
" ” 5 . 91,056
100
Population — continued
Ward No.
It l\
II II
l\ II
6
7
8
9
114,800
47,329
82,465
69,099
Total
649,123
101
ASSESSMENT OF CITY
Tax for City
Tax and School
Rate on $ Purposes
1890 $
136,887,328
14 H mills
$ 2,084,866
1895
146,382,412
16X
\\
2,378,707
1900
124,992,959
19'A
1%
2,437,362
1905
149,159,206
19
l\
2,834,025
1910
269,866,219
17H
w
4,721,189
1915
565,132,579
*23
u
12,982,209
1920
639,678,791
30 H
u
19,471,099
1925
873,329,523
29.85
w
24,969,845
1930
1,011,970,429
31.80
w
30,882,166
1935
1,015,409,940
34.15
33,334,511
1936
979,697,947
34.85
u
32,609,935
1937
974,204,593
35.70
\\
33,284,803
1938
969,686,055
36.05
\\
33,460,731
1939
967,167,858**35.25
\\
32,190,187
1940
955,103,105 f35.15
32,059,421
*This rate includes the Provincial War Tax of
one mill on the dollar.
**Rate made possible by Provincial Government
subsidy of one mill: a further subsidy of one-half
mill after rate was struck by Council, reduced
rate to 34.75 mills.
t Provincial Government subsidy of 1 mill
included.
Note — The amount of taxes raised as above
set forth may not balance with the amount found
by calculating the mill rate on the assessment for
any given year. The difference arises from the
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Assessment of City — continued
fact that a portion of the assessment is liable for
school rates only.
PAYMENT OF TAXES
Taxes for 1940 are payable as follows:
1st Instalment, May 10th.
2nd Instalment, June 26th.
3rd Instalment, August 26th.
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PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
The park system of Toronto, comprising
2,361.536 acres, had its beginning in the dedica¬
tion by the late Jesse Ketchum to the Village of
Yorkville in 1856 of the area known as Ketchum
Park, and which came into possession of the City
upon the annexation of Yorkville to the City in
1883. Since that time many park areas have
been deeded to the City by the Crown, or donated
by private citizens, and in all 1,006.85 acres have
been so acquired. Much of this development has
taken place in the past twenty-five years, during
which time 909.44 acres of land have been
acquired.
One hundred and three park and playground
areas are comprised in the park system, thirty-
seven children's supervised playgrounds are
operated within the system, in addition to which
twenty-eight are operated by the Parks Depart¬
ment upon school grounds during the summer
season. During the winter season sixty recreation
centres are operated, fifty of which are conducted
in school buildings and four in rented gymnasia.
The zoological collections at Riverdale Park,
High Park and the Island comprise a great variety
of domestic and foreign animals and birds. The
animals number 277 in 81 different species; birds
comprising 176 species number 651. Many of
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Parks and Playgrounds— continued
the most valuable of these have been donated to
the City.
The trees upon the streets of the City, as well
as those in the parks, are under the care of the
Parks Department. During the past year 669
trees were planted upon the streets; 1,525 were
removed; 20,183 were pruned; and 49,847 were
sprayed.
The Exhibition Buildings and Grounds, in
which the Canadian National Exhibition is held
annually, are maintained by the City through the
Parks Department.
The parks and playgrounds of the City, with
area of each, are as follows: —
Park Area
Alexandra Park . 6.8 acres
Allan Gardens . 10.1
Avenue Road Squares . 1.19
Baird Park . 2.5
Beaches Park . 24.37
Beaty Boulevard . 83
Bellevue Square . 1.15
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Parks and Playgrounds — continued
Park Area
Bellwoods Park.
Beresford Park.
Bickford Ravine
6.54 acres
1.45 "
13.52 "
Carlton Park Playground . 2.0
Cawthra Playground . 47
City Hall Square . 1.02
Clarence Square . 1.63
Connaught Park . 2.0
Cottingham Square . 1.7
Craigleigh Gardens . 10.05
Davenport Square . 1.18
Davisville Park . 5.5
Dentonia Park . 73.11
Dovercourt Park . 6.1
Dufferin Grove . 8.61
Dundas & Victoria Circle . 005
Earlscourt Park . 32.04
East Lynn Park . 2.7
East Riverdale Recreation Centre. . 2.1
East Toronto Athletic Field . 5.61
Edgewood Park (Small's Pond) .... 5.6
Eglinton Park . 22.0
Exhibition Park . 215.7
Fairmount Park
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Parks and Playgrounds — continued
Park Area
Glebe Manor Squares . 2.17 c
Glenlake Square . 07
Glen Stewart Park . 11.0
Grange Park . 5.86
Greenwood Park . 15.5
High Park (land) . 353.7
High Park (water) . 53.1
Hillcrest Park . 5.32
Humber Boulevard . 129.25
Humberside Collegiate Gounas. . . 1.9
Humberview Park . 2.7
Indian Valley Crescent . 37
Island (including Island Park, Han-
lan Memorial Park, Hanlan's
Point, Ward's Island, Algonquin
Island and Mugg's Landing). . .371.0
Island (water) _ : . 106.03
John Dunn Playground . 3.0
Kendal Square . 1.22
Kenilworth Boulevard . 37
Ketchum Park . 4.34
Kew Gardens . 20.93
King and River Circle . 045
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Parks and Playgrounds— continued
Park Area
Lakeshore Boulevard . 64.47 acres
Lakeshore Park . 41.0
Lawlor Avenue Playground . 44
Lawrence Park . 14.0
Leslie Grove . 1.8
Library Grounds . 1.9
Lytton Park . 2.1
MacGregor Playground . 3.02
Maher Avenue Circle . 19
Monarch Park . 12.5
Moncur Playground . 8
Moorevale Park . 3.3 "
Morse Street Recreation Centre . 74
Moss Park . 1.2
Moss Park Recreation Centre . 1 .98
Mount Royal Square . 14
Muir Memorial Garden . 2.7
McCormick Recreation Centre. . . . 2.65
Neville Park Circle . 28
Norwood Park . 4.0
Oakmount Park . 5.5 "
Old Fort York . 19.7
Osier Playground . 83
O'Neill Playground . 1.29
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Parks and Playgrounds — continued
Park Area
Pape Avenue Recreation Centre.. . 2.25 acre3
Perth Square . 1.79 "
Playter Gardens . 61 *'
Prince Edward Viaduct Parkettes. . 9.5
Queen's Park . 37.2
Ramsden Park . 9.9
Regent Park . 3.16
Reservoir Park . 43.98
Riverdale Park . 108.67 “
Rosedale Park . 7.27
Rosedale Ravines . 37.33
Runnymede Park . 4.2
St. Alban's Square . 23
St. Andrew's Playground . 1.34
St. Clair Reservoir Park . 21.1
St. Clair Viaduct Lands . 6.4
Sherwood Park . 38.86
Spadina Road Park . 86
Stanley Park . 8.106 "
Sunnybrook Park . 181.65
Trinity Park . 31.06 ”
V e rmont Park . 2.0
Victoria Memorial Square . 2.46
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Parks and Playgrounds — continued
Park Area
Wadsworth Park. . . .
Walmer Road Circle
Wanless Park .
Wells Hill Park .
Whitney Park .
Willowvale Park. . . .
Withrow Park .
4.36 acres
.11 “
7.92 "
4.05 "
.82 "
19.74 "
19.53 "
n
Total land area.
Total water area
2,202.406 acres
159.13
TOTAL
2,361.536 acres
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Parks and Playgrounds — continued
Comprised in the parks are the following
recreation features: —
Equipped playgrounds (including 18 wad¬
ing pools) . 64
Baseball fields . 73
Cricket fields . 13
Football fields . 41
Lacrosse courts . 5
Quoiting grounds (4 courts) . 1
Horseshoe pitches (47 courts) . 6
Tennis courts . 317
Bowling greens . 37
Skating rinks . 83
Hockey rinks . 74
Toboggan slides . 15
Bathing stations . 8
Boating stations . 2
Fieldhouses . 60
Running tracks . 3
Picnic areas (accommodation for over 100
persons each) . 103
Ill
TORONTO MUNICIPAL ABATTOIR
This service was inaugurated August 4th,
1914, as a public slaughtering establishment
with cold storage (high and low tempera¬
ture) accommodation. It is essentially to th©
greatest extent a public health institution,
and while the fact of its existence may perhaps
at times have had a tendency to regulate the
price of meats, the purpose of its establishment
was to concentrate the slaughtering of food
animals within the City, so that the evils attendant
upon the operation of small slaughter houses
might be eliminated.
Slaughter House Records, 1939
Number
Slaughtered
Cattle . 24,073
Calves . 16,257
Sheep and Lambs . 23,530
Hogs . 35,914
Total . 99,774
Earl E. Hunt, Abattoir Commissioner.
Office
Foot of Tecumseth St., Toronto 2.
Telephone, Waveriey 9214.
112
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS
The Department of Buildings has charge of
the following:
1. The examination of Plans, and issuing of
permits for all buildings.
2. The licensing of Passenger Elevators.
3. The licensing of Dry Cleaning, and Sponging
and Pressing establishments.
4. The preparation of plans and specifications
and the supervision of erection of Civic
Buildings.
5. The inspection and supervision of all signs,
Canopies and Fire Escapes over Public
Property.
During the past year 49 licenses were issued
for the operation of Dry Cleaning Plants and 579
licenses were issued for Sponging and Pressing
Establishments including Fur Cleaning Firms.
Licenses were granted for the operation of
1,271 Passenger Elevators.
BUILDING STATISTICS FOR TEN YEARS
Year
Permits
Issued
Buildings
Erected
Value of
Buildings
Erected
1930 .
7,812
9,925
$32,130,589
1931 .
6,832
8,646
21,995,313
1932 .
4,969
5,686
8,013,550
1933 .
4,060
4,450
4,482,090
1934 .
4,656
5,283
7,378,772
1935 .
4,467
5,157
9,905,455
1936 .
4,635
5,501
8,114,799
1937 .
5,217
5,969
11,238,900
1938 .
4,875
5,645
8,494,340
1939 .
5,667
6,280
10,285,707
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LOCAL IMPROVEMENT WORKS
When the owners of property on any street
or lane desire a pavement, sidewalk, curbing,
grading, sewer or water main, or when the pro¬
perty owners in any locality desire the opening
widening, extension or diversion of a street or
lane, application should be made to the Depart¬
ment of Works for a form of petition to the Council
for the work or improvement. The petition issued
by the Department contains an estimate of the
cost of the work and the estimated rate of assess¬
ment per foot frontage. When the petition has
been signed by two-thirds in number of the
owners representing at least one-half in value of
the lots liable to be specially assessed, the
Council, with the approval of the Ontario Muni¬
cipal Board, may proceed with the work and
subsequently assess the cost against the lots
abutting directly on the work.
If it is found, when the petition is presented,
that the names of two-thirds in number of the
property owners representing at least one-half in
value of the property have not been obtained,
and if the Council nevertheless determines, on
the recommendation of the Commissioner of
Works, that the work is necessary and in the
public interest, it may direct, with the approval of
the Ontario Municipal Board, that the work be
proceeded with unless a majority of the interested
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Local Improvement Works — continued
property owners, representing at least one-half
in value of the property to be assessed, petition
against it within one month after the Council has
given notice of its intention to proceed therewith.
The foregoing procedure, which is called the
"initiative'' procedure, may also be followed on
the recommendation of the Commissioner of
Works, or on the joint recommendation of the
Commissioners of Works and Assessment in the
case of certain works, when there has been no
petition for the improvement.
Under authority of section 8 of the Local
Improvement Act, the Council, if it deems a
work necessary in the public interest, may
proceed therewith, with the approval of the
Ontario Municipal Board, notwithstanding any
petition to the Council opposed thereto. The
vote of the Council to proceed with the work
must be a two-thirds vote of the whole Council.
W~here the work is a trunk sewer, trunk water
main, or the opening, widening, extending,
diverting or grading of a street, the Council may
by a three-fourths vote of the whole Council
assume part of the cost and assess part of the cost
against abutting lands and also lands benefited
by the work.
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WATER RATES
Payment of Rates
Water rates are payable as follows:
GENERAL RATES
District No. 1 — Being all that part of the
City east of the Don River; rates payable half-
yearly on or before each last day of April and
October.
District No. 2 — From the Don River to and
including Yonge Street; rates payable half-yearly
on or before each last day of May and November.
District No. 3 — From, but not including,
Yonge Street, to and including Bathurst Street;
rates payable half-yearly on or before each last
day of January and July.
District No. 4 — From, but not including,
Bathurst Street to and including Dufferin Street;
rates payable half-yearly on or before each last
day of February and August.
District No. 5 — From, but not including
Dufferin Street to west City limits; rates payable
half-yearly on or before each last day of March
and September.
METER RATES
Payable quarterly, on or before January 31st,
April 30th, July 31st, and October 31st.
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Water Rates — continued
A discount of 10 per cent, is allowed upon all
rates, except for water supplied on the Island, or
found being used without permission, when pay¬
ment is made on or before the above-mentioned
dates.
SCHEDULE "A"— GENERAL RATES
Scale of general water rates for dwellings,
$2.00 per annum, the lowest rate, for four rooms
and under, and 65c per room for five rooms and
over.
Boarding and lodging-houses shall be charged
$1.00 per room.
All conveniences in connection with dwelling
and other houses are chargeable in addition to
the foregoing rates, and when two or more
families occupy one house, the conveniences
shall be charged additional rates for each family.
SPECIAL AND ADDITIONAL RATES
Per
Basins or other taps with sinks: Annum
In private dwellings, each . $ 1.25
In other than private dwellings, each . 2.50
Baths :
In private dwellings, each . 1.25
In other than private dwellings, each 2.50
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Water Rates — continued
Per
Urinals : Annum
In private dwellings, self-acting, each.$ 1.50
Other than self-acting, each . 6.25
In other than private dwellings, self¬
acting, each . 3.00
Other than self-acting, each . 12.50
Water Closets:
In private dwellings, self-closing, each. 2.00
Other than self-closing, each . 6.50
In other than private dwellings, self¬
closing, each . 4.00
Other than self-closing, each . 13.00
W.C's used in common by two or more
houses shall be charged for at the
rate of one to each house.
Laundry :
Private:
For pair of tubs . 1.25
For single additional tubs . 75
Other than private:
For each tub . 1.25
Employing 3 hands and under . 5.00
Employing 4 or 5 hands . 8.00
Employing 6 or 7 hands . 11 .00
Employing over 7 hands . 13.00
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Water Rates — continued
Stables: Per
Private: Annum
For each horse . . $ 1.25
Each vehicle . 75
For automobiles, each . 75
Other than private:
For each horse . 2.00
Each vehicle . 1 .25
For automobiles, each . 1.25
Lawns and Gardens :
500 square feet and under, per season . 1 .00
Above 500 and up to 1,000 per season . 1 .25
Each additional 1,000 or portion there¬
of, per season . 50
Lawn sprinklers or other devices not
held by hand, in addition to above . . 5.00
SCHEDULE "B"— METER RATES
13% cents per 1,000 gallons, except that no
meter rate shall be less than $2.00 net per
quarter year.
For water supplied for use outside the City
limits, 37/4 cents per 1,000 gallons. Minimum
net rate per quarter, $4.00.
SCHEDULE "C"— ISLAND RATES
The rates for the season shall be the same as
are charged under Schedule "A" hereof, except
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Water Rates — continued
that the minimum rates for domestic purposes
per family, shall be $6.25.
The rates for water supplied by meter
measurement shall be 18% cents per 1,000
gallons, except that the minimum amount payable
by persons using meters shall be $6.25.
SPECIAL RATES
Bakers, Barbers, Building and Construction
Works, Caretakers in Buildings, Churches, Fire
Protection, Flushing drains, Forges, Fountains,
Gas Engines, Milk Vats, Pavement or Roadway
Construction, Restaurants, Steam Engines,
Schools (other than public), Trenches, Ware¬
houses, Washing Windows, Washing Machines,
or other Water Motors, etc.
INFORMATION
Full information may be obtained regarding
water rates at Room 103, Main Flcor; and for
metered accounts, Room 304, Third Floor, City
Hall.
120
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The Fire Department consists of one Chief of
Department, one Deputy Chief, one Platoon
Chief, one Secretary, one Physician, one Ac¬
countant, one Record Clerk, one Stenographer,
fourteen District Chiefs, one Superintendent Fire
Alarm Telegraph, three Linemen, three Tele¬
phone Operators, three Fire Alarm Telegraph
Operators, fifty Captains, sixty-seven Lieutenants,
one Mechanical Superintendent, three Helper
Mechanics, five hundred and ten (all grades)
Firemen, six Fire Prevention Inspectors, one
Storekeeper and one Janitor, making a total of
six hundred and sixty-three officers and men.
The Department operates under the two-
platoon system, operating in two shifts — 8 a.m. to
6 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., changing every
Sunday, one crew working full twenty-four
hours. In addition, each member is allowed one
day off each week and fifteen days' annual
vacation with pay. If in service over ten years
the annual vacation is three weeks. Each member
is supplied with uniform clothing by the City.
There is in the Department in service:
21 800-gallon motor pumpers.
1 400-gallon motor pump.
7 Motor aerial turn-table hook and ladder
trucks and portable water towers com¬
bined.
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Fire Department — continued
11 Motor city service ladder trucks.
10 Combination chemical and hose motor
trucks.
2 High pressure hose trucks.
1 Motor salvage truck.
2 Supply trucks.
2 Repair trucks.
1 Gasoline supply truck.
1 Fire Alarm Telegraph emergency
truck.
12 Automobiles.
1 Fire Tug, capacity 1,000 imperial gallons.
70,700 feet 2/^-inch fire hose.
6,650 '* 3^2- " high pressure hose.
23,000 " 2- " firehose.
Cost of fire-fighting plant and equipment
(exclusive of land and buildings) is $367,403.
Cost of Fire Alarm Signal plant, $271,081.
Value of buildings and land occupied by
same, $1,297,798.
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Fire Department — continued
LOCATION OF FIRE STATIONS
Headquarters, Adelaide Street and Uni
versity Avenue. Telephone, Adelaide 3579.
No. 2 Station Richmond and Portland Sts.
3
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10-12 Grosvenor Street.
4
\\
Berkeley St., cor. Duke St.
5
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110 Lombard Street.
7
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470 Dundas St. East.
8
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132 Bellevue Avenue.
9
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16 Ossington Avenue.
10
W
34 Yorkville Avenue.
11
u
Rose Ave., cor. Howard St.
12
Gerrard St. & Carlaw Ave.
13
u
1917 Dundas St. West.
14
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754 Ossington Avenue.
15
u
Cowan Ave., near Queen St.
17
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1904 Queen St. East.
19
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386 Perth Avenue.
20
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358 Keele Street.
22
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87 Main Street.
23
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234 Howland Avenue.
24
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Balmoral Ave. at Yonge St.
25
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61 Hendricks Avenue.
26
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492 Greenwood Avenue.
27
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106 Ascot Avenue.
28
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16 Montgomery Avenue.
29
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132 Bellevue Avenue.
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Fire Department — continued
No. 30 Station Ashbridge Bay district.
31 " MacGregor Avenue and Runny*
mede Road.
“ 32 " Exhibition Park.
“ 33 " Manitou Rd., Centre Island.
“ 34 ” Yonge Street and Wanless Ave.
Garage —Ordnance St., off Strachan Ave.
Statistics Respecting Fires in 1939
Total Alarms . 4, 23 1
False Alarms . 334
Number of actual fires . 2,959
Number of fires with losses . 1,694
Damage to buildings . $322,794
Damage to contents . $599,472
Total fire loss . $1,009,792
Insurance on property damaged. . . . $20,815,548
Number of Fire Alarm Signal Boxes. 623
Number of High Pressure Signal
Boxes . 64
Inspections by Fire Prevention
Bureau during the year . 27,763
Fires reported to arson squad . 41
Number of persons rescued . 45
Number of persons given first aid... 75
Number of Firemen injured . 48
Number of Firemen died in dis
charge of duty
0
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Fire Department — continued
Number of citizens died from result of
fire . 2
Number of times gas masks used ... 44
Number of times Inhalator used ... 76
Feet of hose used . 268,650
Feet of ladder raised . 35,228
Feet of covers spread . 141,872
Analysis of Fire Losses
1,467 under $ 500 loss
76 between
$ 501 and $
1,000
135
$ 1,001 and $
10,000
14
$10,001 and $
30,000
1
$30,001 and $
50,000
0
$50,001 and $100,000
1 over
$100,000
No Loss Fires
1,128
125
POLICE DEPARTMENT
The strength of the Police Department as of
December 31st, 1939, was 1,044, made up as
follows: Members of the Force 924; 1 Chief Con¬
stable; 1 Deputy Chief Constable; 1 Chief Inspec¬
tor of Detectives; 1 Staff Inspector; 1 Assistant
Inspector of Detectives; 18 Inspectors; 48
Sergeants; 32 Detective Sergeants; 61 Patrol
Sergeants; 19 Detectives; 22 Acting Detectives;
704 Police Constables; 15 Attached Constables
(Temporary); Attached Civilian Services 120.
Police Statistics for 1939
Number apprehended or summoned:
Criminal and General:
Male Female
31,308 3,589 34,987
Traffic: 77,467 9,002 86,469
Totals... .108,775 12,591 121,366
Accidental Deaths . 103
Number of Inquests . 72
Number of Lost Children . 1,004
Number of Licenses Issued . 91,027
Revenue therefrom . $295,160.65
Location of Stations
Police Headquarters, Stewart Building, 149
College Street. Telephone, Adelaide 2121.
No. 1 Station— Court Street.
No. 2 Station — Dundas Street West, south
side, near Bay Street.
126
Police Department — -continued
No. 3 Station — Claremont Street, near Queen
Street.
No. 4 Station — Dundas Street East, near
Parliament Street.
No. 5 Station — Davenport Road and New
Street.
No. 6 Station — Queen Street and Cowan
Avenue.
No. 7 Station — -Ossington Avenue, north of
Bloor Street.
No. 8 Station — Pape Avenue, north of Queen
Street.
No. 9 Station — Keele Street, south of Dundas
Street.
No. 10 Station — Main St. and Swanwick
Avenue.
No. 11 Station — London and Markham Sts.
No. 12 Station — Yonge Street and Mont¬
gomery Avenue.
Central Police Garage, Ordnance St. and
Strachan Avenue.
All accidents occurring on the public streets
should be reported promptly to the Police
Department.
Police Telephone, 18 Trunk lines, general No.
Adelaide 2121, from which connection is made
with all stations.
Department maintains a Radio service at
Police Headquarters.
127
LICENSE FEES
Licenses issued under authority of City
Council marked with an asterisk, all other
licenses issued under authority of the Board of
Commissioners of Police.
All licenses expire on December 31st, except
the following:
License Expiry Date
Bicycle . May 31st
Bicycle or Tricycle Livery . Mar. 31st
Coal or Coke Dealer . Apr. 30th
All Dog Licenses . Feb. 28th
Kennel License . Feb. 28th
Journeyman Electrician . Apr. 30th
Master Electrician . Apr. 30th
Ferry-boats . Apr. 30th
Old Gold . May 31st
Second Hand Shop . )
Second Hand Junk Yard . !>May 31st
Second Hand Dealer . J
Second Hand Books . May 31st
Collector . May 31st
Annual
Description of License Fee
Amusement (places of) —
Places of amusement, not herein
otherwise specifically mentioned to
which an admission fee is charged $50.00
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License Fees— continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
Places of amusement, not herein
otherwise specifically mentioned to
which no admission fee is charged $10.00
Miniature Golf Course or Golf-Ball
Driving Course, whether within a
building or not . 50.00
Circuses and Exhibitions are licensed by the day.
For each merry-go-round, switch-back
railway, carousal or other like
amusement device . $25.00
For each movable golf slot vending
machine, snooker golf game and
other similar contrivance:
Per square foot of space occupied. . . .10
Minimum fee . 5.00
Maximum fee . 20.00
Acrobatic or gymnastic performance
or exhibition of circus riding, rope
walking, dancing, tumbling, spar¬
ring, boxing, slight-of-hand, leger¬
demain, jugglery or other tricks
when not held in a theatre or
other duly licensed place, for each
day of the performance or exhibi¬
tion . . 5.00
129
License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
♦Animals and Birds —
Keeper of a shop or place where ani¬
mals or birds for use as pets are sold
or kept for sale . $ 10.00
♦Keeper of a shop or place where only
birds for use as pets are sold or kept
for sale . 5.00
Auctioneer . 100.00
♦Automobile Service Station . 10.00
Bagatelle table, each . 10.00
♦Bailiff . 100.00
♦Barber Shop . . 1 .00
Bicycle or tricycle livery . 5.00
♦Bicycle . .50
Bill or sign Poster or Bill Distributor . . 1 .00
Billiard or pool table, one table only . . 20.00
Each additional table . 10.00
Bowling Alley, of one or two alleys
only . 20.00
For each additional alley over two 5.00
Cabs:
For each cab drawn by one horse 4.00
For each other horse-drawn cab,
omnibus or vehicle carrying passen¬
gers for hire (except as herein other¬
wise described) . 6.00
For each taxicab . 6.00
130
License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
For each driver of such cab or
vehicle . $ 1.00
For each transfer of a cab license 2.00
Cartage Vehicle:
For each one-horse cartage
vehicle . 2.00
For each cartage vehicle drawn by
two horses . 4.00
For each cartage vehicle pro¬
pelled by motive power other than
horses . 4.00
For a driver of a cartage vehicle. .25
For each transfer of a license. . . . 1.00
Circus:
For each menagerie, circus, wild
west show, trained animal show, dog
and pony show or other show of any
kind for each day of the show or ex¬
hibition:
If travelling with 1 to 20 cars _ 200.00
If travelling with 21 to 25 cars. . . 300.00
If travelling with over 25 cars . . . 500.00
Coal or Coke Dealer . 5.00
•Dogs:
For a male dog, if only one is kept. 2.00
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
For each additional male dog . $ 4.00
For a female dog, if only one is
kept . 4.00
For each additional female dog . . 6.00
Provided when a certificate in
writing of a veterinary surgeon is
produced showing that a female dog
has been spayed, the license fee for
such female dog shall be the same
as for a male dog.
*Owner of a kennel of pure bred
dogs registered in the register of the
Canadian Kennel Club, Incorpor¬
ated, who is not licensed as the keep¬
er of a shop or place where animals
or birds for use as pets are sold or
kept for sale . 10.00
Driver of a vehicle for conveying
passengers for hire . 1 .00
Electrician:
For a journeyman electrician's
license . 1 .00
For a master electrician's license . 22.00
Exhibition of:
Pictures, paintings, statuary, or
works of art to which an entrance
fee is charged, for each day . 1.00
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
Menageries, wax works, wild
animals, natural or artificial curio¬
sities, freaks of nature, tableaux, or
other exhibitions for hire or profit,
except those held in a theatre, music
or concert hall or other duly licensed
premises, for each day . $ 5.00
*Ferry-boats:
For each steam or other ferry¬
boat capable of carrying not more
than 100 passengers . 25.00
For each such ferry-boat capable
of carrying more than 100 passen¬
gers . 50.00
For each transfer of a ferry-boat
license . 10.00
Fruits and Garden Produce:
For a license to sell or deliver fruits
or garden produce to retail dealers . . 250.00
Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapman
(as defined by Section 422, subsec¬
tion 1, of The Municipal Act):
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License Fees— continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
(a) with a motor vehicle or one- or
two-horse waggon . $15.00
(b) on foot, with a hand-barrow or
waggon, drawn or pushed . 10.00
(c) with a basket only . 1.00
(d) if selling fish only . 5.00
(a) with a horse or other animal 5.00
(b) on foot with a hand-barrow or
vehicle pushed or drawn ... 1 .00
(e) if on foot and selling from
hand or basket fish, fruit,
flowers, tape, lace, pencils,
thread, pins, needles, combs,
matches or any other article
not exceeding ten cents in
value . .10
Hotel Omnibus:
For each omnibus belonging to a
hotel and used in the course of busi¬
ness of such hotel for the conveyance
of its guests . 5.00
For each driver of same . 1.00
For each transfer of a hotel om¬
nibus license . 2.00
Intelligence Offices, each . 10.00
Jitneys, according to passenger capa¬
city, for one passenger . 1.00
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
For each driver . $ 1.00
For each transfer of a jitney license 2.00
^Laundries:
For each license to a laundryman
or laundry company:
In respect of a laundry where
washing, ironing and finishing
is done . 20.00
In respect of a hand laundry
where only ironing is done . 15.00
In respect of a hand laundry
where only washing is done. . . 15.00
Laundry agent . 5.00
*Ladies' Hairdressing Establishment . . . 1.00
*Lending Libraries . 2.00
Liveries:
For a livery stable or automobile
livery for housing three or less horses
or cars . 10.00
For each horse or car above three 2.00
For each transfer of a livery
license . 2.00
*Massagists:
For a massagist's license . 10.00
Provided, however, that the fee to
be paid by a massagist in the employ
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
or acting under the supervision of a
licensed massagist shall be $2.00
only.
Meat:
For a license to sell fresh meat in
quantities less than a quarter car¬
cass, and fresh fish . $ 1.00
*Milk and Cream Vendors:
For a license to carry on business
as a vendor of milk or cream for
human consumption, with one wag¬
gon, cart or other vehicle used for
the sale or delivery of milk or cream. 1.00
For each additional waggon, cart
or other vehicle . 1.00
Moving Picture Theatres:
Where the seating capacity is
under 600 . 50.00
Where the seating capacity is 600
or more . 100.00
Old Gold, other precious metals and
old jewelry, dealer in . 1.00
*Pawnbrokers . 60.00
Plumbers:
For a master plumber's license... 10.00
For a journeyman plumber's license 1 .00
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License Fees- — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
•Public Garages:
For a building or place where
motor vehicles are hired or kept or
used for hire, or stored or kept for
sale:
(a) If capable of accommodating not
more than 5 motor vehicles . $5.00
(b) If capable of accommodating 6
to 10 motor vehicles . 10.00
(c) If capable of accommodating
more than 10 motor vehicles.. . . 15.00
(d) If gasoline or oils are stored or
kept for sale at any such building
or place, an additional fee of . . . 5.00
(e) If such building is used as an
automobile repair shop, an addi¬
tional fee of . 5.00
For a building or place where
gasoline or oils are kept or stored for
sale . 5.00
If such building is used as an auto¬
mobile repair shop, an additional
fee of . 5.00
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
If such building is used as an auto¬
mobile repair shop limited to the
making of minor or running re¬
pairs, an additional fee of . $5.00
For a building used as an auto¬
mobile repair shop only . 5.00
Refreshment Rooms:
For each place for the reception,
refreshment or entertainment of the
public, other than a standard hotel:
(a) where the seating accommoda¬
tion is for not more than 50 per¬
sons . 5.00
(b) where there is accommodation
for more than 50 persons . 10.00
(c) where there is no seating accom¬
modation . 5.00
Roller Skating Rink:
For a license to keep a roller
skating rink . 50.00
Second Hand Shops, Junk Shops, Junk
Yards and Dealers in Second Hand
Goods:
For each shop, store, warehouse or
yard where a second-hand business
is or is to be carried on .
20.00
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License Fees— continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
For a second-hand goods dealer's
license . $20.00
For a collector's license . 1.00
Provided that the fee to be paid for
a license by a person dealing in
second-hand books only shall be two
dollars ($2.00).
Shooting Galleries:
For a license to keep for hire or
profit a rifle or shooting gallery or
any instrument or mechanical device
for amusement (except as herein
otherwise provided) . 50.00
Shows:
For a license for the performance
for hire or profit by any troupe or
company of actors, musicians, or
dramatic or musical performers,
where such performance is given
elsewhere than in a theatre or other
licensed premises, for each per¬
formance . 10.00
Sign Painters:
For a license to carry on the busi¬
ness of an advertising sign painter, or
a bulletin board painter . LOO
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
Slot Machines:
For a license to keep a place where
there are kept for hire or profit one
or more slot machines by which
pictures are made or exhibitedjor
sounds produced.
For one machine only . $5.00
For each additional machine
above one . .50
Street Photographers:
For a license as a photographer or
other person who for gain uses a
photographic camera or other simi¬
lar device in or upon any highway or
public place . 25.00
Tally-Ho Coaches:
For each tally-ho coach . 10.00
For each transfer of a tally-ho
license . 2.00
For each driver of a tally-ho coach. 1 .00
Theatres and Halls:
For a license to keep for hire or
profit a theatre (other than a moving
picture theatre), music or concert
hall or other place which is used for
theatrical, dramatic, musical or
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
other like amusement where the
space can accommodate less than
200 . $20.00
where the space can accommo¬
date from 200 to 599 . 40.00
where the space can accommo¬
date 600 or more . 100.00
Tobacconists:
For a license to sell cigars and
tobaccos . 5.00
For a license to sell cigars, tobacco
and cigarettes . 25.00
For a license to sell tobacco only,
not including cigars or cigarettes.. . 1.00
NOTE:
The amount of the fee to be paid for a license
to sell cigars, tobacco and cigarettes shall be as
follows: — for any license issued between the first
day of January and the first day of April in any
year, the amount to be paid for the same shall be
equal to the charge for the full year; for any
license issued subsequent to the first day of April
and prior to the first day of July, the charge shall
be equal to three-fourths of the full charge for one
year; for any license issued subsequent to the
first day of July and prior to the first day of
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License Fees — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
October, the charge shall be equal to one-half of
the full charge for one year; and for any license
issued subsequent to the first day of October, the
charge shall be equal to one-fourth of the full
charge for one year.
Transient Traders, each . . . $250.00
Other trading persons whose names
are not on the Assessment Roll, or
are on it for the first time, in respect
of business or income assessment,
for each place of business operated
by such person . . . 25.00
Provided that the fee to be paid for
such license by a farmer, resident in
Ontario, who offers for sale only the
produce of his own farm shall be
$5.00 only.
Victualling Houses:
For a license to carry on the busi¬
ness of a victualling house, ordinary,
or place where fruit, fish, oysters,
clams, or victuals are sold to be
eaten therein, other than a standard
hotel,
(a) where the accommodation is for
not more than 50 persons
5.00
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License Fees- — continued
Annual
Description of License Fee
(b) where there is accommodation
for more than 50 persons . $10.00
NOTE:
The amount of the license fee required by
Section 2a of By-law No. 186 of the Board of
Commissioners of Police for the City of Toronto
to be paid by any person who, after the return of
the assessment roll commences to carry on any
business in premises in respect to which he is
liable for business assessment, shall be a sum
computed by reference to the tax on the business
assessment which such person would have been
required to pay for the current year in respect to
the premises in which he has commenced
business if he had been previously assessed and
made liable for such tax and shall be either one-
half the amount of such tax for the whole year
or a proportionate part of the same for the balance
of the year after he commences business,
whichever shall be the greater.
143
TAXICAB TARIFF
Extracts from By-law No. 214 of the Board oi
Commissioners of Police for
the City of Toronto
SCHEDULE "A”
By Distance
One to Four Passengers:
For the first half-mile or part thereof . $ .25
For each additional half-mile or part thereof .10
For waiting time each five minutes . 10
For each additional passenger in excess of
four . 20
Baggage, for each trunk . 20
Hand Baggage free if carried inside vehicle.
By the Hour
Not less Not more
For the first hour or any part
than
than
thereof . $
For each additional 15 min-
2.00
$ 3.00
utes .
For each passenger in excess
.50
.75
of four, per hour .
.25
.75
Baggage, for each trunk .
.20
.20
Hand Baggage free if carried inside vehicle
PaRKSIDE or
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Taxicab Tariff — continued
Children
Children in charge of an adult: Under the
age of eight years, free; over eight years and
under twelve years of age, half fare; over twelve
years of age, full fare.
Sightseeing Coach or Omnibus
Not less Not more
than than
For each passenger, per hour.$ .50 $ 1.00
Ambulance
For any journey within the City . 5.00
Funeral Hearse
Funeral Hearse . 10.00
Hotel Omnibus
For each passenger . 25
Driveself Cab
5-passenger cars, including gas and oil,
per mile . 20
7-passenger cars, including gas and oil,
per mile
.25
145
RATES TO BE CHARGED FOR MOVING
HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND OFFICE
FURNITURE
Schedule “A”
Section 32 of By-law 204 of the Board of
Commissoners of Police for the City of Toronto,
provides in part for the following tariff:
Rates — Subject
to Notes 1,
2 and 3
A. COVERED VANS:
Up to 600 cubic feet capacity. . $2.25 per hour
Over 600 and not over 800
cubic feet capacity . 3.00 per hour
Over 800 cubic feet capacity . . 3.75 per hour
B. OPEN OR TARPAULIN-COVERED TRUCKS:
With body length not over 10
feet . $ 1 .75 per hour
Over 10 and not over 12 feet. . 2.00 per hour
Over 12 feet . 2.50 per hour
Foregoing rates to include vehicle and
driver. When extra men supplied —
75c. per hour per man additional.
146
Rates to be Charged for Moving Household
Goods and Office Furniture — continued
C. HORSE-DRAWN VEHICLES:
For one horse wagon . $1.10 per hour
For two horse wagon . 2.00 per hour
Foregoing rates to include vehicle
and driver.
NOTE 1:
For the purpose of this Tariff “COVERED
VANS" shall mean any vehicle, other than an
open or tarpaulin-covered truck, or wagon, used
for the conveyance of household goods and office
furniture, the body of which is completely en¬
closed on all sides except at the loading entrance
thereof.
NOTE 2:
If vans of greater cubic capacity or trucks of
greater body length are supplied than are neces¬
sary to contain the goods, the rate to be charged
will be that of a van of lesser capacity or truck
of lesser body length suitable therefor.
NOTE 3:
The above charges to commence from the
time the vehicle leaves the office, warehouse or
stand to take up load and to continue until its
return thereto.
147
Rates to be Charged for Moving Household
Goods and Office Furniture — continued
D. PIANO MOVING:
Upright pianos from ground floor to ground
floor:
Within a radius of four miles $4.00 each
Beyond a radius of four miles 6.00 each
Ordinary Grand Pianos
. $1.00 plus charge for upright
Concert Grand Pianos
. $2.00 plus charge for upright
EXTRA HANDLING:
For each floor above ground floor (when
taken up or down stairs) .
$1.00 plus moving charge
Lowering or hoisting, one floor .
$4.00 plus moving charge
Lowering and hoisting, one floor .
$7.00 plus moving charge
Lowering or hoisting, one floor (when not
moved) . $5.00
Lowering or hoisting over one floor, each
additional floor . $2.00
Work-cards must be used when operating
under this Schedule as provided for in Section
27 of this By-law.
148
Rates to be Charged for Moving Household
Goods and Office Furniture — continued
For other rate, see By-law No. 204 of the
Board of Commissioners of Police for the City of
Toronto, copy of which may be obtained from
License office of City Hall.
149
BOARD OF EDUCATION
The Board of Education consists of eighteen
elected members (two elected from each of the
nine wards into which the City is divided), and
two members appointed by the Separate School
Board to represent Separate School Supporters in
certain matters.
The membership by wards at present is as
follows:
Ward 1
Leslie H. Saunders, 11 Glebeholme Blvd.
Alex. Stewart, D.D.S., 717 Pape Ave.
Ward 2
William D. Dennison, 150 Carlton St.
E. A. Hardy, O.B.E., D.Paed., 124 Duplex Ave.
Ward 3
Lawrence S. Eckardt, 320 Bay St.
W. Reg. Shaw, 1130 Bay St.
Ward 4
William T. Lawson, 70A Homewood Ave.
Herbert Orliffe, B.A., 225 Richmond St. W.
Ward 5
Harold Menzies, 869 Bloor St. W.
J. P. Frank Williams, M.D., 550 Palmerston Blvd.
Ward 6
Mrs. Fred. G. McBrien, 1447 King St. W.
Frank W. Ward, 1200 Bay St.
150
Board o£ Education— continued
Ward 7
Wm. H. Butt, M.D., 316 Keele St.
Mrs. H. E. McCullagh, 67 Colbeck St.
Ward 8
Stanley J. Fenwick, 501 Logan Ave.
Loftus H. Reid, 55 Queen St. E.
Ward 9
C. R. Conquergood, 15 Duncan St.
R. Alan Sampson, B.A., 45 Richmond St. W.
Representatives of Separate School Sup¬
porters —
Herbert L. Conlin Arthur Kelly, B.A.
Officers of the Board
E. A. Hardy, O.B.E., D.Paed, Chairman.
C. H. R. Fuller, B.A. Sc., Business Administrator
and Secretary-Treasurer.
C. C. Goldring, M.A., D.Paed., Superintendent of
Schools and Chief Inspector, Public Schools.
D. Hillis Osborne, B.A., Solicitor.
Offices of the Board
Administration Building, 155 College Street,
Telephone, Waverley 7661
151
SCHOOL STATISTICS, 1939
Number of Teachers on Public School Staff —
Day Schools . 1,955
Night Schools . 12
Number of Kindergarten Teachers on Public
School Staff . 163
Number of Teachers on College Institute
Staff-
Day Schools . 331
Night Schools . 41
Number of Teachers on Central, Danforth,
Western Technical and Northern Voca¬
tional (Technical) School Staffs —
Day Schools . 265
Night Schools . 315
Jarvis School for Boys, Edith L.
Groves and Boulton Ave.
Schools for Girls . 51
Jarvis School for Boys, night. ... 9
Number of Teachers, High
Schools of Commerce —
Day Schools . 182
Night Schools . 108
Number of pupils registered in
Public Schools, including
Kindergartens . 77,795
152
School Statistics — continued
Average daily attendance, Public
Schools and Kindergartens . . 69,167
Attendance, Collegiates —
Day . 10,095
Night . 216
Attendance, Technical Schools —
Day . 6,000
Night . 2,135
Jarvis School for Boys—
Day . 473
Night . 48
Boulton Ave. School for Girls. . . 195
Edith L. Groves School for Girls. 269
Attendance, Schools of Commerce —
Day . 5,742
Night . 1,758
Value of Public Schools Property:
Sites and Equipment . $22,525,822.36
Value of Collegiate Institutes
property: Sites and Equip¬
ment . 6,487,008.95
Value of Schools of Commerce
property: Sites and Equip¬
ment . 2,967,417.73
Value of Administration Building
and site . 820,638.97
153
School Statistics — continued
Value of Technical, including
Handicraft Schools property:
Sites and Equipment . $6,078,284.34
Total Value of property, sites and
Equipment . 38,879,172.35
N umber of Collegiates . 10
" Technical Schools _ 4
" " High Schools of Com¬
merce . 5
*' " Public Schools, in¬
cluding Homes,
etc . 93
Jarvis School for Boys. . . . 1
Edith L. Groves School for Girls. 1
Boulton Ave. School for Girls ... 1
154
PENNY BANK
For Schools
Inaugurated April 1st, 1905
The Penny Bank operates in the Schools with
the approval of the Board of Education. Deposits
are made each Tuesday morning in the class
room. Withdrawals can be made by school
children at the Head Office of the Bank, corner
of Orde and McCaul Streets, between the hours
of 3.30 p.m. and 5 p.m., except Saturday, and by
parents from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Banking hours
on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
There are over 89,000 open accounts in
Toronto and suburbs with a total balance on
deposit of over $660,000. About 34% of the
pupils make deposits every Tuesday morning.
A large number of classes have 100% of the
enrolment operating accounts in the Penny Bank.
Hon. President — Colonel H. D. Lockhart Gordon,
D.S.O., V.D.
President — M. A. Mackenzie, M.A., LL.D.
Managing Director — H. B. Scandrett.
Assistant Manager — Elizabeth Armstrong,
Telephone, Adelaide 0828.
155
SEPARATE SCHOOL BOARD
The Board at present is composed of eighteen
Trustees, elected by wards, for a term of two
years, one Trustee in each ward retiring annually.
The membership at present is:
Gerard Beaudoin, 15 Maple Ave.
Fred J. Boland, 120 Lyndhurst Ave.
F. Coates, 6 Fielding Ave.
Jas. F. Coughlin, K.C., 219 Geoffrey St.
F. Crittenden, 252 Westmount Ave.
J. G. Culnan, 209 Indian Road Cres.
Chas. L. Daly, 499 Windermere Ave.
W. T. Donohue, 64 Dixon Ave.
M. L. Doyle, 12 Crestview Road
Elmer T. Duggan, 119 Kendal Ave.
M. J. Duggan, 33 Victor Ave.
C. E. Finley, 38 Douglas Ave.
R. F. Fitzpatrick, 8 Glenholme Ave.
Rev. C. W. James, 589 Adelaide St. West
Rev. G. J. Kirby, Ph.D., 263 Roncesvalles Ave.
Rev. T. Manley, 300 Wolverleigh Blvd.
Harold J. Murphy, D.D.S., 12 Bloor St. East
N. F. A. Scandiffio, 258 Rusholme Road
156
Separate School Board — continued
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
M. J. Duggan, Chairman.
R. F. Fitzpatrick, Treasurer.
E. F. Henderson, Secretary and Business
Agent.
lames E. Day, K.C., Solicitor.
W. J. Lee, B.A., Senior Inspector.
Rev. Brother Jarlath, Supervisor of Schools.
OFFICE OF BOARD
477 Jarvis Street
Telephones, Midway 2403, 2404
SCHOOL STATISTICS, 1939
Number of teachers . 335
Number of registered pupils. . . . 14,158
Average daily attendance . 12,099
Value of Separate School
property . $3,710,520.00
Number of Separate Schools. ... 38
157
PUBLIC LIBRARIES
The management and control of the Public
Libraries of the City are vested in the Toronto
Public Library Board, appointed pursuant to the
provisions of the Act respecting Public Libraries
and Art Schools (Chap. 202, R.S.O. 1914) and
composed of the Mayor of the City and eight
others, three of whom are appointed by the City
Council, three by the Board of Education, and
two by the Separate (Catholic) School Board.
The persons appointed by the City Council and
the Board of Education hold office for three
years, and those by the Separate School Board
for two years. These members retire in rotation
at the end of their respective terms on the 31st of
January.
The Board holds its regular meetings on the
second Tuesday of each month, and the Libraries
and Finance Committee meets on the next
preceding Thursday.
The Libraries are maintained by an annual
appropriation from the tax rates, under legislative
enactment, of an amount not to exceed fifty cents
per capita of the population of the City as shown
in the returns of the Assessment Department.
This appropriation is obligatory, but by a vote of a
majority of the members of the Council present
and voting the appropriation may be increased
to an amount not exceeding one dollar per capita.
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Public Libraries — continued
TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD,
1940
Norman B. Gash, K.C., LL.B., Chairman,
85 Spadina Road,
(Rep. City Council).
His Worship the Mayor,
Ralph C. Day,
City Hall.
Thos. W. Banton,
250 Merton Street,
(Rep. City Council).
Mrs. Richard Davidson,
63 St. George Street,
(Rep. Board of Education).
Dr. Henry Glendinning,
387 Bloor Street E.,
(Rep. City Council).
Hon. Mr. Justice Kelly, LL.D.,
33 Maple Avenue,
(Rep. Separate School Board).
John C. M. MacBeth, K.C., B.A.,
152 Springhurst Avenue,
(Rep. Board of Education).
Newman Mallon, B.A.,
72 Lyndhurst Avenue,
(Rep. Separate School Board).
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Public Libraries — -continued
Dr. F. N. Walker, M.A.,
96 Lawrence Avenue E.,
(Rep. Board of Education).
Chief Librarian:
Charles R. Sanderson, B.Sc.
The Administration Offices are located in the
Central Library Building, corner College and St.
George Streets. Telephone (switchboard),
Kingsdale 1152.
The Downtown Circulating Library is at No.
42 Adelaide Street West.
The Reference Library and the Central Cir¬
culating Library are located in the main Library
building, situated at the corner of St. George and
College Streets. Immediately north of this build¬
ing there is a well-equipped Boys and Girls
Library in the Boys and Girls House. There are
seventeen Branch Libraries (including a library
for the troops in training in Exhibition Park) and
also Stations in eighteen Schools and Settlements,
etc.
The cost of the main building at College
and St. George Streets, and of the Branches
on Yorkville Avenue, Queen Street West,
Annette Street, Broadview Avenue, Ronces-
valles Avenue, Bathurst Street and Queen
Street East was met by funds provided by
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Public Libraries — continued
the late Andrew Carnegie. Sites and build¬
ings for the other branch libraries were secured
by special appropriations from the City.
The Reference Library is open from 10 a.m.
to 9.30 p.m.; the Central Circulating Library
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; the Downtown Branch
from 8.30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; the remaining branch
libraries from 2 to 9 p.m., but closing on Wednes¬
days. The Boys and Girls Library, on St. George
Street, opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m.
The main building includes, in addition to
the administrative offices and the Reference and
Circulating Divisions, the Central Reading Room,
with an ample supply of the leading Canadian,
British and American newspapers and magazines;
the Music Library, a popular branch of the lend¬
ing system; the Reference collection of the bound
volumes of the Canadian, British and American
patent specifications; a valuable collection of
Government documents, and a Bureau of Clip¬
pings, these gathered from current periodicals
for reference purposes.
In the Circulating portion of the main building
are also housed the Kipling Room, with its special
collection of books for boys and girls of High
School age, and the John Ross Robertson Collec¬
tion of engravings, prints and paintings illustra-
Public Libraries — continued
tive of early life in Canada (the largest and most
valuable collection of Canadian prints in exis¬
tence). This room is open to the public^daily
without charge.
LIBRARY STATISTICS, 1939
Value of Libraries, including build¬
ings and grounds, about . $1,516,949
Adult books issued for home reading . 2,689,569
Reference books used . 330,254
Boys' and Girls' books used . 1,293,655
Books and pamphlets added . 70,224
Total number of books and pamphlets
in the Libraries. . . . 621,230
162
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
Although the Canadian National Exhibition
lays claim to only 62 years of continuous activity,
actually it can trace its origin back to 1792 when
the settlers along the Niagara River formed the
first agricultural association in Upper Canada,
known as the Niagara Agricultural Society. This
in its turn was the outgrowth of numerous "bees"
held by the settlers in the district to perform all
kinds of work, and the knowledge thus attained
brought such greatly increased efficiency that
the before-mentioned society was formed. Gover¬
nor John Graves Simcoe was keenly interested in
it, subscribing liberally to the prize money and
encouraging it in many ways.
The Niagara Agricultural Society and those
societies which grew from it lived a somewhat
precarious existence for some time. In 1801 it
was encouraged by premiums and prizes offered
for the cultivation of hemp in the Canadas by
"the Society instituted in London for the en¬
couragement of Arts, Manufactures and Com¬
merce"; but for many years following the war of
1812, the Society languished, reviving in 1820 to
hold a "Cattle Show" in York (Toronto). Govern¬
ment aid was lacking until 1830 when an Act was
passed granting an annuity of $400.00 to agricul¬
tural societies.
163
Canadian National Exhibition — continued
The next step was the formation of a Provincial
Agricultural Society in 1846. This Society held
an annual fair each year in a different com¬
munity. This was the order of procedure from
1846 to 1878, when a group of farseeing men,
convinced that this peripatetic fair was not in
the best interests of anybody, persuaded the City
of Toronto to sponsor the erection of splendid,
permanent, exhibition buildings in the hope of
having the fair held annually in that City.
The 1878 Exhibition was a marked success,
but in spite of this the Society decided to hold the
1879 fair in a different city. Then it was that the
decisive step was made — a permanent annual
exhibition was to be held in Toronto independent
of the Provincial Agricultural Society. Thus was
born in the face of great opposition the Toronto
Industrial Exhibition. This Exhibition grew and
flourished for many years until in 1912 a Dominion
Charter was granted and its name was changed to
the Canadian National Exhibition. Its growth
has been phenomenal, the total investment in
plant and equipment being in excess of
$21,000,000.00 with an area of 350 acres.
The Board of Directors consists of the Mayor
of the City and seven members of the City Council
together with eight representatives of manufac-
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Canadian National Exhibition — continued
luring interests and eight representatives of
agriculture, all of whom are elected at the
Annual Meeting from among the membership of
the Association which latter comprises one
hundred and fifty organizations of various kinds.
The Minister of Agriculture of the Province of
Ontario is also (ex-officio) a member of the Board.
In addition, the past presidents of the Associa¬
tion are directors.
The Canadian National Exhibition is looking
forward with confidence and courage to its 62nd
consecutive year of operation. Never in its long
history of public service has its primary mission,
the promotion and stimulation of trade, been more
urgently needed, and from Aug. 23rd to Sept.
7th the "World's Greatest Annual Exposition"
will be operating smoothly and efficiently in
every department.
Honorary President
George Brigden
President
John Millar
First Vice-President
J. A. Scythes
Second Vice-President
Colonel K. R. Marshall
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Canadian National Exhibition — continued
LIFE DIRECTORS
Colonel F. H. Deacon, Sam Harris, T. A. Russell,
Alfred Rogers, George Brigden, Robert Fleming,
George H. Gooderham.
DIRECTORS
Section "A" representing the City Council:
His Worship Mayor Day, Aldermen Walter A.
Howell, John M. Innes, Frank M. Johnston, D. C.
MacGregor, Nathan Phillips, Percy J. Quinn,
J. S. Simmons.
Section "B" representing Manufacturers:
R. C. Berkinshaw, T. Frank Matthews, John
Millar, Morden Neilson, A. Ross Robertson, A. J.
Roden, J. A. Scythes, Mackenzie Waters.
Section "C" representing Agriculture:
&W. A. Dryden, H. B. Donovan, Jr., W. J.
Gardhouse, Lionel Godson, Dr. R. M. Jenkins, A.
A. Macdonald, Col. K. R. Marshall, Dr. L. E.
Pollock, Hon. P. M. Dev/an (ex-officio).
EXECUTIVE STAFF
General Manager . Elwood A. Hughes
Secretary-Treasurer . T. Gordon Dalglish
General Offices: 7th floor, Lumsden Bldg.,
Nl Yonge and Adelaide Streets, Toronto.
Telephone, Elgin 4291, connecting all depart¬
ments.
166
Canadian National Exhibition — continued
DATES OF EXHIBITION, 1940
Aug. 23 to Sept. 7, (Exclusive of Sundays)
EXHIBITION STATISTICS
Prizes
Year
Paid
Attendance
1924 .
. $ 92,300
1,519,000
1925 .
. 97,000
1,491,300
1926 .
. 105,400
1,573,000
1927 .
. 130,000
1,870,000
1928 .
. 138,300
2,039,000
1929 .
. 151,200
1,974,000
1930 .
. 129,600
1,687,000
1931 .
. 122,800
1,657,000
1932 .
. 107,600
1,439,000
1933 .
. 94,100
1,420,000
1934 .
. 90,686
1,503,000
1935 .
. 90,201
1,651,000
1936 .
. 91,376
1,603,000
1937 .
. 88,183
1,302,000
1938 .
. 88,127
1,656,000
1939 .
. 77,539
1,626,000
GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS
Exhibition Park occupies a site of some 350
acres and is fortunate in having a waterfront
extending for a mile and a half along the shore of
Lake Ontario. A breakwater extending the full
length of this waterfront, forms a protected regatta
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Canadian National Exhibition — continued
course where practically every aquatic event may
be held in a location ideal for competitor and
onlooker alike.
From the waterfront the ground rises slightly
in terraces revealing Exhibition Park, beautifully
landscaped and containing many graceful shade
trees, fitting setting for the many stately structures
it contains. Built of stone, steel and concrete,
these buildings are gems of exposition architec¬
ture and are indeed worthy of the high standard
of interest and excellence attained by the exhibits
displayed in them. Among these magnificent
buildings— many of which cost in excess of a
million dollars — are the Automotive Building, the
Engineering and Electrical Building, the
Coliseum, which with its annexes and the
magnificent Horse Palace, contains the greatest
floor space of any exhibition building in the
world; the Food Products Building, the Interna¬
tional Pavilion and the National Industries
Building.
A comprehensive system of building renova¬
tion has been started and in the course of time all
the older buildings still capable of years of
service, will be completely made over and
modernized.
Mention too should be made of the magnificent
and acoustically perfect bandshell, one of the
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Canadian National Exhibition — continued
most modern in the world, in which is combined
the most recent developments in the field of
acoustics and lighting.
As a point of keen interest is the towering flag
pole, made from a single stick of Douglas fir,
soaring to an erected height of 187 feet.
Mention must be made also of the beautiful
lighting of Exhibition Park. After nightfall
concealed floodlights and gay standards and
pylons make a scene of colourful beauty long to
be remembered.
169
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL WINTER FAIR
ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Associa¬
tion of Canada is a voluntary body, organized in
1919, for the purpose of promoting the higher
branches of Agriculture in the Dominion, notably
live stock, through the competitive stimulus of an
annual exhibition of farm products. Its annual
Fair, held in November, now occupies an envied
position among agricultural exhibitions on the
American Continent, and in its combined wide
scope, representative inclusiveness, variety of
exhibits, and high standards is undoubtedly uni¬
que in any country.
Included in the membership of the Association
are representatives of all existing live stock and
other agricultural organizations in Canada, as
well as of the Dominion and Provincial Govern¬
ments and the City of Toronto.
The Royal Fair comprises specialized and
internationally organized shows for horses, cattle,
sheep, swine, poultry, dairying, fruit and flowers,
silver foxes, minks, grains, seeds, dogs, cats,
tropical and fancy fish, and small pet stock.
Entries for the past ten years have averaged
15,000 annually and the total prize lists amount to
roundly $100,000 a year.
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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair — continued
The first Fair was held in 1922, when the
exhibits, contributed from all the nine Provinces
of Canada, taxed the accommodation. Between
that date and 1931 splendid supplementary
buildings to the Central Coliseum and its annexes
have been erected. They are all of steel and
concrete, steam-heated, and, in part, auto¬
matically ventilated, being admirably equipped
for winter exhibition purposes. There are now
stalling and stabling for 2,000 head of cattle,
2,000 sheep, 2,000 swine, 7,000 poultry; and the
magnificent stables have box and open stalls for
1,200 horses.
The central arena, where the brilliant Royal
Horse Show is held nightly during the eight-day
Fair, has seating and promenade space for 10,000
spectators. It is fitted with the most up-to-date
devices for exhibition requirements in sound,
light, and ventilation. The Royal Horse Show has
justly won for its equestrian standards and per¬
formances high repute among American and
European horsemen. An attractive feature since
1925 has been the participation of British and
foreign army officers' teams, notably for the
coveted international trophy. In all, fifteen
nations have thus officially taken part in these
dashing military competitions at Toronto.
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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair — continued
At the outbreak of the War in September,
1939, the Directors of the Royal readily agreed to
the suspension of the Fair in November so that
the extensive buildings, especially the Coliseum
and its two fine annexes, with administration
offices, might be used as military quarters; and
they were at once utilized for the mobilization of
Canadian troops.
172
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair — continued
1940
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Hon. President
Mrs. D. A. Dunlap, Toronto.
President
Gordon F. Perry, Toronto.
Vice-President
F. C. Fletcher, Toronto.
Manager
W. A. Dryden, Toronto.
Treasurer
T. C. Mussen, Toronto.
GENERAL OFFICES
217 Bay Street.
Telephone: Waverley 3081
1940
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Gordon F. Perry (President); F. C. Fletcher
(Vice-President); R. O. Biggs, Dundas, Ont.;
Duncan O. Bull, Brampton, Ont.; E. M. Carroll,
Toronto; C. E. Chambers, Toronto; Dr. G. I.
Christie, Guelph, Ont.; George R. Cottrelle,
Toronto; Fred. K. Morrow, Toronto; J. A. Northey,
Toronto; Alfred Rogers, Toronto; W. J. Russell,
Unionville, Ont.; P. L. Whytock, Toronto, and
George Wilson, Toronto.
173
THE TORONTO HARBOUR
COMMISSIONERS
The Toronto Harbour Commissioners com¬
menced active operations in 1914, and, in co¬
operation with the City Council and Dominion
Government by Agreementand Order-in-Council
have transformed the Harbour from a siate of
inadequacy into one of the most modern and up-
to-date harbours on the Great Lakes. It can ac¬
commodate the largest vessels passing through
the Welland Ship Canal, and now ranks third in
cargo tonnage among Canadian Lake and Sea
Ports.
In addition to deepening the Harbour and
constructing approximately 47,000 lineal feet of
wharves, two large waterfront industrial areas
have been created out of lands covered by water
and non-revenue producing in 1915. These
areas have direct access to rail and water
transportation and are served by 32 miles of
Commissioners' railway tracks, wide paved
streets and hydro-electric power at cost; there is
also perfect co-ordination of rail, water and
highway transportation.
The area of the lands sold, leased or occupied
now totals 509 acres, on which are located 103
establishments, which have invested approxi- •
mately $39,000,000.00 in land, buildings andi
equipment.
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The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
On account of bond refinancing the difference
between the financing of 1936 and that of 1937
resulted in an annual saving of $285,302.44.
The net general and local improvement taxes
paid by The Toronto Harbour Commissioners on
Harbour lands are as follows:
Year General
1912 to 1934. .$132, 318
1935.. 16,202
1936.. 40,982
1937.. 28,566
1938.. 25,844
1939.. 27,081
Local
Improve¬
ment Total
,221,237 $1,353,555
183,654 199,856
160,689 201,671
158,556 187,122
148,975 174,819
128,954 156,035
Total. $270,993 $2,002,065 $2,273,058
During the last few years waterborne traffic
has been marked by a phenomenal expansion
which is directly attributable to the Harbour
facilities, which provide adequate accommoda¬
tion to the largest vessels plying on the Great
Lakes.
176
The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
The following is the waterborne trade of the
Harbour from 1921 to 1939: —
Year Tons
1921 . 248,363
1931 . 2,121,066
1932 . 2,270,448
1933 . 2,500,100
1938 .
1939 .
Year Tons
1934 . 3,125,144
1935 . 3,020,132
1936 . 3,382,858
1937 . 3,703,881
3,801,025
3,589,561
At the Western Section, between Dowling
Avenue and the Humber River, 217 acres have
been reclaimed. It is known as Sunnyside Beach,
and contains a bathing pavilion with accom¬
modations for 7,700 bathers at one time; adjoin¬
ing this is a swimming pool 300 feet long by 75
feet wide, with a depth grading from 2V£ feet.
It has a capaciiy of 750,000 gallons continuously
heated chlorinated and filtered. There are also
amusement devices, games, rides, boating,
canoeing, dancing and refreshments.
Another important part of the development
work was the construction of Toronto's Cross
Town Waterfront highway which extends from
the Humber River on the west to Leslie Street on
the east, a distance of seven miles, with a mini¬
mum pavement width of fifty feet. The foresight
in constructing this highway, made possible by
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The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
the waterfront development, is amply demon¬
strated by the many thousands of motor cars using
it daily. It provides not only a fine entrance to the
City from the west but also an easy means of
access to downtown Toronto for tourists and the
motoring public generally.
The general taxes received by the City from
industries located on the lands created by the
Harbour development, the benefits arising from
the ever-increasing waterborne trade of the
Harbour and the impetus given thereby to the
commerce of the City, apart from the saving to the
citizens by reason of low cost transportation, are
tangible results of the development. These, as a
whole, cannot be rated in mere dollars and cents
but they are, nevertheless, of incalculable value
to the City at large.
In 1937, the City Council decided to construct
two municipal airports, one a combined airport
and seaplane base on Toronto Island and the
other an all-weather airport at Malton, and
requested the Harbour Commissioners to con¬
struct and operate them for and at the expense of
the City.
The Island Airport, mainly reclaimed from the
Inner Harbour and Lake, contains 177 acres, 150
of which have been sodded; there are four
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The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
flightways 3,000 feet long and 500 feet wide,
along the centre of two of which is a paved run¬
way 150 feet wide for the full length of the flight¬
way; it is equipped with a modern Administration
Building, lighting system, hangar, seaplane ramp,
low dock and float.
At Malton, 1,444 acres were acquired for
airport and zoning purposes, the objective being
to use the zone-controlled areas for industrial
development in connection with the manufacture
of aircraft, subject to the regulations of the
Department of Transport as to height of structures,
etc. The National Steel Car Corporation Limited
has purchased seme 108 acres, on which a large
plant is now in operation, with an extension in
progress. In addition to this, a large plant has
been constructed by Canadian Associated Air¬
craft Limited on a 15-acre site purchased by this
company.
Work on the Airport proper (which contains
693 acres) was commenced in August, 1937,
and in August, 1938 the first Trans-Canada
airplane landed at the Airport. Provision has
been made for flightways covering eight points
of the compass 1,000' in width and 9,000'
long, with permissible paved runways 5,000'
in length and upwards. At the present time
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The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
three flightways have been constructed 3,000'
long and 500' wide — two of which are paved
150' wide for a distance of 3000', the third
runway being grass.
This Airport is equipped with the most modern
lighting system, meteorological offices, radio, etc.,
and on November 1st, 1938, the control of same
was taken over by the Trans-Canada Air Lines
until the end of 1940. A modern Administration
Building was constructed and completed in the
Fall of 1939.
The Trans-Canada Air Lines have leased 2 3^
acres adjoining the landing field and have
erected thereon a hangar.
This Airport is on the main route of the
Trans-Canada Air Lines and mail and express
planes are now flying on a regular daily schedule
through Toronto from Montreal to Winnipeg,
Vancouver and return.
The Island Airport has been officially named
by the City Council “Port George VI, Toronto
Island Airport", in commemoration of the
historic visit to Canada, during May of last year,
of His Most Gracious Majesty King George VI,
accompanied by His Queen Consort, Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
180
The Toronto Harbour Commissioners
— continued
The Malton Airport, also has been officially
named "Bishop Field, Toronto Airport, Malton",
in honour and recognition of the war-time service
of Air Marshal William A. Bishop, V.C.
Commissioners
Thomas Rennie, Chairman, 10 North Sherbourne
Street.
P. J. Mulqueen, 197 Rosedale Heights Drive.
B. J. Miller, 314 Rosewell Avenue.
William H. Bosley, 36 Cheritan Avenue.
T. Frank Matthews, 138 Warren Road.
Officers
E. L. Cousins, General Manager.
F. R. Scandrett, Solicitor and Secretary.
F. J. Blair, Chief Engineer,.
T. Graydon, Comptroller.
F. J. Marigold, Harbour Master.
Office
Administration Building, Harbour and Bay Streets.
Telephone, Elgin 1451.
Sunnyside Beach. Telephone, Lakeside 0357.
181
TORONTO TRANSPORTATION
COMMISSION
The Toronto Transportation Commission was
incorporated by an Act of the Ontario Legislature
assented to June 4th, 1920. The Act of Incor¬
poration is 10-11 Geo. V, 1920, Chap. 144, which
may be briefly summarized as follows:
( 1 ) The Commission consists of three members,
appointed by the City Council to serve for three
years, and to be paid such salary or other
remunerations as may be fixed by Council.
(2) No member of the City Council is eligible
for appointment as a member of the Commission.
(3) The Commission is entrusted with the
control, maintenance, operation and manage¬
ment of:
(a) The Toronto Railway Company upon its
acquisition by the City.
(b) The Civic Lines.
(c) Any other street railways that the City
may from time to time acquire.
(4) The City may at any time entrust to the
Commission the construction, control, mainten¬
ance, operation and management of lines of motor
buses, or subways, or of tubes, or of any method
of underground or local overhead transportation
(This was done by By-law No. 8564.)
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Toronto Transportation Commission
— continued
(5) To consider generally all matters relating
to local transportation in the City of Toronto.
(6) To construct, control, maintain, operate
and manage new lines of street railway.
(7) To fix such tolls and fares so that the
revenue of the Commission shall be sufficient to
make all transportation facilities under its control
and management self-sustaining after providing
for such maintenance, renewals, depreciation
and debt charges as it shall think proper.
(8) To requisition the City for money neces¬
sary to carry out its powers and duties. But
nothing contained in the Act of Incorporation
shall divest the Council of its authority with
reference to providing money for such purposes.
(9) The Commission to furnish the City
annually an Operating and Financial Statement,
and keep its books at all times open for inspection
by the Audit Department of the City.
The fares chargeable by the Commission are
as follows:
Fares for Adults:
Four tickets for 25 cents; cash fare, 10 cents.
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Toronto Transportation Commission
— continued
Fares for Children:
(a) Infants "in-arms”, free. Children, not
over 51 inches in height: Cash, three
cents; ten tickets for 25 cents.
(b) School Children's tickets: School Child¬
ren's tickets are sold at the rate of seven
for 25 cents, and are for the use of all
school children under 16 years of age.
The tickets are good only going to and
from school, between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 4.30 p.m., and are not valid on
Saturdays, Sundays or on other days when
schools are closed.
Free transportation privileges on the street
cars are provided to the members of the Amputa¬
tions Association of the Great War and to blind
people in Toronto receiving passes through the
Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Free transfers are issued between all street
cars within the City limits and between street
cars and "feeder” buses within the City limits.
To protect the City's huge investment and its
rights to control public transportation in its
streets, the City authorized the Commission's
acquirement of control of the principal motor
coach routes radiating from the City and of
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Toronto Transportation Commission
— continued
motor coach sight-seeing services in the City.
These services and other special motor coach
and motor launch services are operated by the
Commission under the name of Gray Coach
Lines, Limited. With its routes extending from the
United States border at Niagara Falls and Buffalo
to Toronto and thence to Muskoka Lakes, North
Bay and other northern Ontario resorts, Gray
Coach Lines' motor coach services have made
Toronto the hub of highway travel and have
developed a profitable tourist business for
Toronto. Complete information in reference to
the services of Gray Coach Lines and connecting
motor coach services to all points in Canada and
the United States is available at the Motor Coach
Terminal, 602 Bay Street, or by telephoning
ADelaide 4221.
Several municipalities adjacent to Toronto
have arranged to have their local public trans¬
portation services managed by the Toronto
Transportation Commission. This arrangement is
advantageous to these municipalities and does
not impose any financial responsibility on
Toronto or on the Commission. These include
street railway services in York Township,
Weston, and the municipalities between Toronto
and Richmond Hill on north Yonge Street; and
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Toronto Transportation Commission
— continued
bus services in York Township, Forest Hill
Village, Leaside and East York Township.
The Toronto Island Ferries, now owned by
the City of Toronto, have been managed by the
Transportation Commission since February 1927.
Passenger and freight service is supplied by a
fleet of ferry boats and freight craft between the
mainland and the three Islands — Centre Island,
Hanlan's Point and Ward's Island. The one-way
trip to any of these points is made in approxi¬
mately fifteen minutes.
The ferry service is managed by the Commis¬
sion under an agreement with the City. The
finances of this service are entirely separate from
those of the other service managed by the Com¬
mission under its Act of Incorporation.
The rates of fare are the same on the ferries
as on the City street car system, the same tickets
being good on either service, but no transfer
tickets are issued between the ferries and the
street cars.
This is the eighteenth year of the Commis¬
sion's operation of the various transportation
services. In the essential quality of Safety the
Commission has a notable record. Well over four
and one-half billions of passengers have travelled
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Toronto Transportation Commission
— continued
on the street cars, buses, motor coaches, terries
and motor launches operated by the Commission.
Not one passenger has been fatally injured.
The Commission operates 926 electric
street cars and 80 electric service cars. The
street cars travel a distance of approximately
22,000,000 miles in service during a year. The
257 buses and motor coaches travel 7,000,000
miles yearly. The fleet of five ferry boats carry
nearly 2,000,000 passengers during the Sum¬
mer. Approximately 3,000 people are regularly
employed by the Commission.
The Commissioners are as follows:
Wm. C. McBrien, Chairman.
Wm. Croft, Vice-Chairman.
W. G. Russell, Commissioner.
H. C. Patten, General Manager.
Offices: 35 Yonge Street, Telephone, Wav-
erley 7611.
187
TORONTO HYDRO-ELECTRIC SYSTEM
The Toronto Hydro-Electric System is owned
by the City of Toronto, and is operated for it by
the Toronto Electric Commissioners.
The Toronto Electric Commissioners, created
under Provincial Statutes (1 Geo. V, Chap. 119,
Sec. 6), are empowered to carry out the provi¬
sions of the Public Utilities Act of Ontario (R.S.O.,
1927, Chap. 249) in so far as such Act applies to
the City of Toronto.
The present members and officers are:
Commissioners
Joseph Gibbons (Chairman).
Kenneth A. Christie, K.C. (Vice-Chairman).
Ralph C. Day (Mayor).
Officers
E. M. Ashworth, General Manager.
H. J. MacTavish, Secretary.
Offices
14 Carlton Street: Telephone, Ad. 2261.
The Toronto Hydro-Electric System is one of
the largest municipally-owned distribution sys¬
tems in the world, and distributes power at un¬
usually low rates.
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Toronto Hydro-Electric System
— continued
Alternating Current Light and Power Rates
(This Schedule does not include rates for
service outside the City Limits.)
Residence Service
Alternating Current — 25 Cycles — 120 Volts.
Monthly Demand Charge:
Three cents per 100 square feet floor area,
per month. (Minimum 1000 sq. ft. Maximum
3000 sq. ft.)
Energy Charge:
One and eight-tenths cents per Kilowatt-hour
up to equivalent of 3 Kilowatt-hours per 100 sq.
ft. floor area charged.
One cent per Kilowatt-hour for all additional
consumption.
Prompt payment discount 10%. Minimum
monthly bill 75c. (net).
Commercial Lighting Service
Alternating Current — 25 Cycles — 120 Volts
Billing Demand — by Meter or 100% Installed
Capacity.
Three cents per Kilowatt-hour for equivalent
of first SO hours' monthly use of Billing Demand.
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Toronto Hydro-Electric System
— continued
One cent per Kilowatt-hour for equivalent of
90 hours' monthly use of Billing Demand.
One-third cent per Kilowatt-hour for all addi¬
tional consumption.
Prompt payment discount 10%.
Minimum monthly charge 75c. (net) per
Kilowatt of Billing Demand. Minimum monthly
bill 75c. (net.)
Power Service
Alternating Current — 25 Cycles — 3 Phase 550
Volts. Billing Demand — by Meter or 100% In¬
stalled Capacity. Alternating Current — 25
Cycles — 3 Phase — 208 Volts (See Note).
Monthly Demand Charge:
One dollar and ten cents per Kilowatt for the
first lx/2 Kilowatts of Billing Demand.
Ninety cents per Kilowatt for all additional
Billing Demand.
Energy Charge:
Two cents per Kilowatt-hour for equivalent
of the first 50 hours' monthly use of the Billing
Demand.
One cent per Kilowatt-hour for equivalent of
the second 50 hours' monthly use of the Billing
Demand.
One-third cent per Kilowatt-hour for equival¬
ent of the next 300 hours' monthly use of the
Billing Demand.
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Toronto Hydro-Electric System
— continued
One-sixth cent per Kilowatt-hour for all
additional consumption.
Prompt payment discount 10%.
NOTE — Alternating Current 25 Cycles — 3
Phase — 208 Volts Service is supplied in areas
where 4 wire A.C. network is installed.
Direct Current Service is supplied in a re¬
stricted down town area only.
Rates for Direct Current and special classes of
service, such as Rat Rate Water Heaters, Hall
Lighting, Sign Lighting, etc., may be obtained on
application.
The following statistics, based on the oper¬
ations during 1939 are of interest.
Kilowatt-hours sold . 1,1 17,000,000
Peak load . 383,536 H.P.
Total Revenue . $13,300,000.00*
Number of consumers at Dec.
31, 1939 . 195,270
Total System-owned Assets at
Dec. 31, 1939 . $49,500,000.00*
Net bonded debt at Dec. 31,
1939 . $10,429,614.37
System-owned Assets exceed
liabilities by . $36,000,000.00*
Equity in H.E.P.C. Sinking
Fund . $16,197,463.50
*Estimated.
191
TORONTO OLD AGE PENSIONS BOARD
(Appointed under Old Age Pensions Act,
Ontario, R.S.O. 1937, Chapter 314)
The Board consists of five persons; three
appointed by the Province and two by the
Municipality.
Its duty is to receive all applications for Old
Age Pensions and Blind Pensions made by
residents of the City of Toronto; and forward
them, together with their recommendations, to
the Old Age Pensions Commission of Ontario.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Provincial Appointees:
Arnold Ivey, Chairman.
Robert Ferguson
Mrs. Herbert L. Conlin
Municipal Appointees :
Aid. C. M. Carrie, Vice-Chairman.
Zeph Hilton
Secretary’s Office
Stewart Building, 149 College Street, ^Toronto.
Telephone, Waverley 1082.
The actual number of Toronto residents
receiving Old Age Pensions at December 31,
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Toronto Old Age Pensions Board — continued
1939 was 11,531. The amount paid out in Pensions
during 1939 was $2,531,636.52.
At December 31, 1939, 241 persons in
Toronto were receiving Blind Pensions, and
the amount paid on their behalf totalled —
$53,816.93.
The City is required to provide office space,
staff, etc., and these for administration purposes
are attached to the Department of Public Welfare.
193
MOTHERS’ ALLOWANCES TORONTO
BOARD
(Appointed in pursuance of the Mothers'
Allowances Act, R.S.O., 1937, Chap. 313.)
The Board consists of five persons; three
appointed by the Province and two by the
Municipality.
Its functions are to receive and consider
applications for allowances under the Act
made by residents of the City of Toronto and
to recommend to the Ontario Mothers' Allow¬
ances Commission the payment of allowances to
those considered eligible.
A monthly allowance may be paid towards
the dependent children of a mother with at
least one child under sixteen years of age in
her care, who is
(a) a widow, (b) or a mother with a totally
and permanently incapacitated husband, (c) or a
deserted mother, whose husband has not been
heard of for at least three years, (d) or a foster
mother, who is married or unmarried and has
resident with her one or more orphan children
and has not adequate means to care properly for
them without the assistance of an allowance. In
all cases the applicant must be a British subject
by birth or naturalization or is the widow or wife
of a British subject and has resided in the
Province of Ontario for at least two years.
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Mothers’ Allowances Toronto Board
- — continued
The Members of the Toronto Board are as
follows:
Provincial Appointees
Mr. W. O. McTaggart, Chairman.
Mrs. Angus Gordon, Vice-Chairman.
Mrs. David Dunkelman.
Municipal Appointees
Mrs. G. D. Kirkpatrick.
Mr. John Dillon.
Secretary’s Office
Stewart Building, 149 College Street, Toronto.
Telephone, Waverley 1082.
Number of beneficiaries on Toronto Pay
List, December 31st, 1939 . 2,401
Number of beneficiaries on Toronto Pay
List part of year and later eliminated. . . 554
Total
2,955
195
THE BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY
OF TORONTO
The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto was
organized in 1844 and incorporated by an Act of
the Legislature of the late Province of Canada in
1845.
The principal objects of the Board are:
(a) To promote and/or support such measures
as, upon due consideration, are deemed
calculated to advance and render prosperous
the lawful trade and commerce and to foster
the economic and social welfare of the City
of Toronto in particular and of the Province
of Ontario and of the Dominion of Canada in
general.
(b) To promote the establishment and mainten¬
ance of uniformity in the business of its
members and those dealing with them.
(c) To adjust, settle and determine controversies
and misunderstandings betv/een persons
engaged in trade.
(d) To advance in all lawful ways the com¬
mercial interests of the members of the
Board generally and to secure the ad¬
vantages to be obtained by mutual co¬
operation.
196
The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto
— continued
(e) To stimulate in such way as may be deter¬
mined from time to time social intercourse
among the members of the Board.
The Board is one of the largest commercial
organizations in the British Empire and functions
through a Council of nineteen elected members
and a number of Committees, the principal of
which are Insurance Legislation, Social Problems,
Taxation, Transportation and Customs, and
Northern Ontario. The Board also operates
fourteen Trade and Professional Branches,
namely, Air Conditioning Industries, Book
Publishers, British Empire Overseas, Dairy, En¬
gineering, Fuel Dock, Funeral Directors, Grain
and Grain Products, Lumbermen, Motion Picture,
Oil Heating, Produce, Provision Trade and
Toronto Laundry-Owners' Exchange, and has
affiliated with it the Fuel Protection Association.
The Board has direct representation on the
Advisory Vocational Committee of the Board of
Education, Canadian National Exhibition As¬
sociation, Federation for Community Service,
Ontario Safety League, Toronto Harbour Com¬
mission, Toronto Industrial Commission and
Traffic Advisory Board.
Commodious Dining and Lounge Rooms and
well-equipped offices are maintained for the
197
The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto
— continued
benefit of the members and for the prosecution of
the work of the Board.
The Board of Trade Club, open to members
of the Board of Trade, meets weekly on Mondays
at 5.30 p.m. for dinner meetings, from October
1st to April 30th.
the primary objects of the Club are:
(a) to promote good fellowship amongst mem¬
bers of the Board of Trade;
(b) to educate members to a fuller realization of
their responsibilities as members of the
Board of Trade;
(c) to pave the way to a better understanding of
the City's social and economic needs; and
(d) to make members better citizens of the
Dominion of Canada and the Commonwealth
of British Nations.
The Young Men's Section comprises young
men between the ages of eighteen and thirty.
The Section meets fortnightly, on Tuesdays, at
6.00 p.m. for dinner meetings, from October 1st
to April 30th. The members are granted limited
privileges in the Board of Trade.
The objects of the Young Men's Section are:
(a) to educate members to a better under¬
standing of the importance — in civic and national
198
The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto
— continued
life — of the Board of Trade and the Chamber of
Commerce movement; (b) to co-operate when¬
ever and however possible in the varied activities
of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto;
(c) to enable the young business and professional
men of the city to study and to co-operate towards
the solution of current national and local prob¬
lems; (d) to encourage and assist members to
study, under competent direction, subjects of
value in all phases of business; (e) to promote
good fellowship amongst the young business and
professional men of Toronto who are eligible for
membership.
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The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto
— continued
OFFICERS, 1940
President
R. C. Berkinshaw
First Vice-President
las. S. Duncan
Second Vice-President
Ivor R. Lewis
Honorary Treasurer
Dr. F. A. Gaby
Council
H. H. Bishop, F. L. C. Bond, John S. Entwistle,
Robt. Fennell, K.C., R. Leighton Foster, K.C.,
D. H. Gibson, Crawford Gordon, Laurence E.
Grigg, Gordon C. Leitch, D. R. Michener, Nor¬
man McMillan, James A. Northey, W. Frank
Prendergast, Norman C. Urquhart and L. F.
Winchell.
General Manager and Secretary
F. D. Tolchard
Transportation Adviser
T. Marshall
Offices — Mezzanine Floor, King Edward Hotel#
King St. E., Telephone Elgin 9161
\
200
CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS’
ASSOCIATION
Incorporated under an Act passed by the
Parliament of Canada in 1902 (2 Edward VII,
Chap. 48).
OFFICERS, 1939-40
President
D. R. Turnbull, Acadia Sugar Refining Co.,
Limited, Halifax, N.S.
First Vice-President
Harold Crabtree, Howard Smith Paper
Mills, Limited, Montreal, Que.
Second Vice-President
Louis L. Lang, Lang Tanning Co. Limited,
Kitchener, Ont.
Treasurer
T. F. Monypenny, The Imperial Varnish & Colour
Co. Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Association Officials
General Manager, J. T. Stirrett.
Offices — 1404 Montreal Trust Building, Toronto
Telephone, Adelaide 7261
Ontario Division, C.M.A.
Chairman, C. R. Brown, Canadian Drawn Steel
Co. Limited, Hamilton, Ont.
Secretary, J. M. McIntosh, Toronto
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Canadian Manufacturers’ Ass’n — continued
Toronto Branch, C.M.A.
Chairman, F. T. Walsh, O'Keefe's Brewing
Co. Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Secretary — J. M. McIntosh, Toronto
Manufacturing Statistics
Number of establishments . 2,797
Number of employees . 96,247
Capital invested . $423,350,508
Salaries and wages (annual) . $115,520,050
Value of products (annual) . $475,470,149
Value of products of outstanding industries:
Slaughtering and meat packing. . . .$44,000,000
Lithographing, printing, publishing,
engraving, etc . $35,000,000
Men and women's clothing . $27,000,000
Electrical apparatus and supplies. . . $26,000,000
Machinery . $ 1 3,000,000
Rubber goods, including footwear. .$10,000,000
Soaps, washing and cleaning com¬
pounds . $10, 000, 000
202
TORONTO CONVENTION AND TOURIST
ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
This Association was organized in the year
1926 for the purpose of increasing tourist traffic
and securing Conventions for the City of Toronto.
Officers
Hon. President, Ralph C. Day, (Mayor).
President, Lt.-Col. C. M. Ruttan, C.B.E., V.D.
Vice-Presidents, P. Kirby Hunt and C. Q. Ellis.
Manager, T. H. R. McNally.
Secretary-Treasurer, J. H. Simundson.
Address — Rooms 108-109, 37 Bloor Street,
West. Telephones, Midway 9874-5.
Statistical Information
Conventions favouring Toronto
1926 . 103
1939 . 305
Tourist Traffic into Toronto
1926 . 744,525
1939 . 3,480,896
Value of Visitor Industry . .$52,020,744
203
TORONTO INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
The Toronto Industrial Commission was
incorporated by Letters Patent under the
Ontario Companies Act on 28th of Decem¬
ber, 1928, and began active operations on
the 13th of March, 1929. The Commission's
objects are to secure industries for, and aid
industries in, the City of Toronto and sur¬
rounding territory and to give publicity to
the advantages of the Toronto area for busi¬
ness and manufacturing purposes.
During 1939 the Commission co-operated
in the establishment of fourteen industrial
developments in the Toronto area. Ten exist¬
ing Toronto industries in 1939 were assisted
in securing larger or more suitable manufac¬
turing space, new lines to manufacture and
given data on questions of obscure sources of
materials, taxation and numerous other
subjects.
Since the Commission began operations
eleven years ago it has co-operated with a total
of 176 industrial companies which have estab¬
lished in Toronto and suburbs. They have
invested over $9,090,000 in plant and equip¬
ment, are employing 5,400 people, and are
occupying more than 2,425,000 square feet of
floor space.
In addition to the "direct” employment by
the new industries, their operations have re-
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Toronto Industrial Commission — continued
suited in substantial additional employment
in other Toronto concerns supplying a wide
variety of production materials and services
to the new companies and their employees.
It has been conservatively estimated that this
"indirect" employment represents over 5,000
additional persons.
The employment provided is equal to the
total industrial employment in many of Can¬
ada's smaller cities. Their coming has added
"another" city to Toronto.
These new companies paid taxes of $34,372
in the City of Toronto in 1939 and purchased
electric power and light to the value of $71,418.
The Commission has given assistance to
many existing Toronto industries, co-oper¬
ating with them in expansion plans, in se¬
curing new lines to manufacture, and in pro¬
viding them with market and distribution data
with regard to both domestic and export trade,
and information on numerous other subjects,
including sources of equipment and materials.
The Commission has taken an active part in
submitting Toronto's facilities to the British and
Canadian authorities for aircraft manufacture,
Empire air training and the manufacture of war
munitions.
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Toronto Industrial Commission— continued
The Commission is the official Industrial
Commission for the City of Toronto. Its Board
of Directors is made up of representatives
nominated by the City Council, the Board of
Trade of the City of Toronto, the Toronto Branch
of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, the
Toronto Hydro-Electric System, the Toronto
Transportation Commission, the Toronto Harbour
Commissioners and the Canadian National
Exhibition Association.
OFFICERS
Honorary President
C. L. Burton
President
John A. Tory
Vice-Presidents
A. B. Cooper F. E. Waterman
E. M. Ashworth
Board of Directors
One nominated by Toronto City Council:
Mayor Ralph C. Day.
Six nominated by the Board of Trade of
the City of Toronto as follows: R. C. Berkinshaw,
General Manager, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Ltd.; C. L. Burton, President, The Robert Simpson
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Toronto Industrial Commission — continued
Co. Ltd.; F. A. Gaby, Vice-President, The British
American Oil Co. Ltd.; Ivor R. Lewis, Staff Super¬
intendent, The T. Eaton Co. Ltd.; T. Frank
Matthews, Vice-President, Canada Packers,
Ltd.; John A. Tory, Director, Sun Life Assurance
Co. of Canada.
Three nominated by the Toronto Branch
of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association
as follows: A. B. Cooper, General Manager,
Ferranti Electric, Ltd.; A. Ross Robertson,
Manager, Dominion Bridge Co. Ltd.; F. E.
Waterman, General Manager, Toronto Brick
Co. Ltd.
And the following four, representing public
bodies in the City of Toronto: E. M. Ashworth,
General Manager, Toronto Hydro-Electric Sys¬
tem; W. H. Bosley, Toronto Harbour Commis¬
sioners; H. C. Patten, General Manager, Toronto
Transportation Commission; Elwood A. Hughes,
General Manager, Canadian National Exhibition
Association.
T. H. Bartley
General Manager and Secretary-Treasurer
Canada Permanent Building, 320 Bay Street
Telephone — Waverley 1616
207
TORONTO AND YORK ROADS
COMMISSION
(Appointed under 5 Geo. V., Chap. 17)
This Commission consists of five persons,
two appointed by the County Council of York
and two appointed by the City of Toronto,
and a fifth to be appointed by the four elected
members or the Lieut-Governor in Council. Its
duty is the improvement and maintenance of
main suburban roads to be determined upon by
the Commission. The cost is to be borne by the
City, the County and the Ontario Government
in the following proportions: 25 per cent, by
the City, 25 per cent, by the County, and 50 per
cent, by the Ontario Government. The members
and officers of the Commission are as follows:
COMMISSIONERS
J. Ray Price, Chairman, Weston, Ontario.
R. R. Leslie, Vice-Chairman, 72 Hillcrest Dr..
Toronto.
E. G. Farr, Weston, Ontario.
Morgan Baker, M.L.A., R.R. Stouffville, Ont.
John B. Laidlaw, 625 Avenue Road., Toronto.
R. W. Phillips, Secretary.
W. W. Gardhouse, Treasurer.
H. C. Rose, Chief Engineer.
Offices — County Building, 57 Adelaide St. E.,
Toronto. Telephone, Waverley 3851.
208
ONTARIO MUNICIPAL BOARD
R. S. Colter, K.C., Chairman.
D. S. Charlton, Vice-Chairman.
W. P. Near, B.A.Sc., Commissioner.
Miss M. B. Sanderson, Acting Secretary.
J. A. McDonald, Inspector of Telephone Service.
Offices — Parliament Buildings
Telephone— AD. 1211
THE ONTARIO MUNICIPAL
ASSOCIATION
This organization, composed of delegates
appointed by different municipalities through¬
out the Province of Ontario, has been formed
for the purpose of discussing important munici¬
pal topics and of prompting desirable municipal
legislation. The delegates are either members or
officers of municipal councils.
The annual meetings are held in Toronto,
usually during Exhibition time.
The officers for the year 1939-1940 are:
President — H. W. Sturm, Alderman, Kitchener.
Vice-Presidents — C. W. McCrea, Sault Ste.
Marie; Martin Rowell, Councillor, London,
Twp.; W. R. Allely, Lindsay; H. Hopper,
Hamilton; W. P. Walker, Cardinal.
Secretary-Treasurer — Horace L. Brittain, 137
Wellington St. West. Telephone, Elgin
1904.
209
CONSUMERS’ GAS COMPANY
The Consumers' Gas Company was incor¬
porated on March 23rd, 1848, for the purpose
of supplying the City of Toronto with gas.
SCHEDULE OF RATES
Gross Rates
Net Rates
Cubic Feet
per 100
per 100
per Month
Cubic Feet
Cubic Feet
First
10,000
10 Cents
9 Cents
Next
90,000
9'A "
8A "
Next
400,000
9
8
Service Charge 50 Cents per Month.
Rates for quantities in excess of the above may
be obtained at the Head Office of the Company.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A. L. BISHOP - President
COLONEL J. F. MICHIE - Vice-President
L. Goldman, F. G. Osier, A. R. Auld, C. S.
Macdonald, W. C. Laidlaw, Brig. -General C. H.
Mitchell, E. J. Tucker and His Worship the
Mayor.
EDWARD J. TUCKER,
General Manager and Secretary
OFFICES:
19 Toronto Street
Telephone, Adelaide 9221
210
THE TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY
The Toronto Humane Society gives a twenty-
four hour service, 365 days of the year for the
relief of suffering animals. An average of 350
telephone calls per day are received, and dur¬
ing 1939 a total of 24,190 calls were made by
the Society's trucks, during which 11,775 dogs
and 16,927 cats were brought to shelter. 7,247
emergency calls (sick and injured animals) were
responded to and 1223 complaints regarding
cruelty were investigated.
Constant inspection is maintained over the
conditions under which animals for human
consumption are handled and killed. During
1939 this entailed the examination of 100,290
cattle, sheep, swine and poultry. The trans¬
portation of food animals and birds is frequently
carried on with great cruelty and it is an import¬
ant part of the Society's work to keep constant
watch on those engaged in this work and
thousands of pamphlets are distributed to
drivers of cattle trucks and those engaged in
transportation of animals, giving advice as to
the most humane way of doing the work.
Humane education of children is one of the
most vital departments of the Society's work,
as it is a well-known fact that a child who is
taught kindness to animals will not go far wrong
in his behaviour towards his fellow-men.
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The Toronto Humane Society — continued
The Society exists to help all animals that
are suffering, that are wounded, lost, deserted,
hungry or that must be mercifully put to death.
President — Hon. R. C. Matthews.
Manager — J. M. Wilson.
Headquarters and Kennels — 11 St. Albans Street,
Telephone, Kingsdale 1191.
GREATER TORONTO BUSINESS
COUNCIL PUBLICITY BOARD
President — Dr. A. J. Vince, 648 Danforth Ave.,
Telephone, Hargrave 1225.
Secretary — Orval J. Wyckoff, 679 Danforth
Ave., Telephone, Gerrard 4666.
Publicity — Miss Olga B. Walshe, 221 Nairn Ave.,
Telephone, Kenwood 2624.
212
FORMER MEMBERS’ ASSOCIATION OF
TORONTO CITY COUNCILS
OFFICERS, 1940
Honorary President
Aid. H. M. Davy
President
Former Aid. Clifford E. Blackburn
1st Vice-President
Former Aid. J. E. Corcoran, K.C.
2nd Vice-President
Former Mayor W. D. Robbins
3rd Vice-President
Former Aid. Garnet A. Archibald
Secretary
Former Aid. Robert A. Allen,
62 Woodycrest Avenue, Telephone HA. 5454
Treasurer
Former Aid. W. C. Davidson, K.C.,
Lumsden Building, Telephone EL. 1459
Directors :
Former Mayor Wm. J. Stewart, C.B.E.,
M.P.P., Former Mayor Major Bert S. Wemp,
Former Controller Claude Pearce, Former Aider-
men Colonel T. H. Holdsworth, J. F. Boland,
K.C., Joseph T. Turner, Charles A. Ward, John
B. Laidlaw, F. W. Johnston, H. L. Rogers.
213
SOCIAL SERVICES OF TORONTO
Every community has its problems of social
break-down. As the community grows the
problems of indigence, dependency and illness
grow with it. With the increasing complexity of
modern city life, health and welfare services
have become a recognized responsibility of
civic government. Private philanthropic effort
continues to care for groups and individuals
who are not served by public organizations.
Public assistance is concerned with indivi¬
duals as units of society and tries to supply
those in need with a similar or uniform equip¬
ment necessary to life; while private agencies
try to regard individuals as unique personalities,
and aim at increasing, in each individual, the
inner capacity of living well.
Because of the pressure of events during
the past few years there has been a marked
trend toward greater co-ordination of both
public and private effort in an endeavour
to eliminate overlapping and make for more
effective and economic service in the inter¬
ests of people served. The first and simp¬
lest mode of co-operation was in the direc¬
tion of eliminating overlapping, through a
system of registration provided by the Social
Service Index. Then followed the attempt to
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Social Services o£ Toronto — continued
unite all voluntary agencies in a common
appeal for the support of the public, through
community chests or federations for community
service. Of these, three were formed in
Toronto: Federation for Community Service,
Federation of Catholic Charities and the United
Jewish Welfare Fund. Seventy important
agencies are now included in these federations,
but a number still continue their own program¬
mes outside the federation group. Out of the
federations there developed naturally the de¬
mand for co-operation in policy and action which
led, in 1937, to the formation of a Welfare
Council of Toronto and District. Within this
Council any form of organized effort, whether
public or private, is intended to have its place,
and thus the Council can serve as a veritable
parliament of agencies, constantly deliberating
and acting in the interests of greater well-being,
utilizing the best thought of the community and
focusing its goodwill and its resources with the
minimum of waste or friction.
A classified list of all the welfare services
in Toronto with a brief statement of their purpose
is available in the Directory of Welfare Resources
issued by the Welfare Council. The co-ordinating
agencies are as follows:
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Social Services of Toronto — continued
Federation for Community Service, Room 906,
100 Adelaide St. West. Telephone: Ad.
7476. General Secretary, A. D. Hardie.
Federation of Catholic Charities, 67 Bond
St. Telephone: Wa. 2022. Director of
Charities, Rev. F. H. Gallagher.
Social Service Index, Room 607, 210 Dundas
St. West. Telephone: Ad. 6304. Execu¬
tive Secretary, Miss Mary Clarke.
Welfare Council of Toronto and District, Room
605, 210 Dundas St. W. Telephone: Ad.
8505. Executive Secretary, Miss Frieda Held.
United Jewish Welfare Fund, 21 Dundas Square.
Telephone: Ad. 5829. Executive Director,
Martin M. Cohn.
216
TORONTO AND THE TELEPHONE
The telephone needs of Toronto and the
adjoining communities are served by the Bell
Telephone Company of Canada.
The Bell Telephone Company of Canada was
incorporated in 1880 and, in Toronto, absorbed
the Toronto Telephone Despatch Company,
which had been serving Toronto citizens since
1879.
Sixty years later at the start of the present
year the Toronto exchange has grown to one of
over 215,000 instruments — the largest by far of
any exchange in Canada.
More long distance calls are placed from
Toronto on the average day than from any city
in the Dominion. Of the world's metropolitan
centres — those of more than 750,000 popula¬
tion — Toronto leads in its proportion of residence
telephones per hundred inhabitants. Thus,
Toronto holds the spotlight in Canada as regards
telephone development and usage.
This is the Diamond Jubilee year of the Bell
Telephone Company of Canada and the com¬
pany is proud of its record of service to ihe citi¬
zens of Toronto.
Valuable information about the City itselt
may be found in the Blue Pages of the Telephone
Directory.
217
Toronto and the Telephone — continued
Executive officers of the Company are C. F.
Sise, President; P. A. McFarlane, J. H. Brace,
F. Johnson, Vice-Presidents; H. G. Young,
General Manager, Western Area, Toronto, and
E. A. Rolph, Toronto Manager.
Office: 76 Adelaide Street West, Telephone
Waverley 3911.
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1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
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219
WEATHER RECORDS
>wing information is supplied by the
>f the Meteorological Service, John
I.A., F.R.S.C.
iverage
aperatur
Summer
July
Aug.
65.8
65.6
68.2
70.3
66.9
68.5
68.4
69.4
70.4
66.8
69.4
69.3
67.3
74.0
69.1
70.3
70.6
68.1
73.0
69.3
67.4
67.1
68.1
68.2
66.9
70.2
67.0
69.6
71.5
68.6
71.0
68.5
71.9
71.0
72.0
72.3
72.0
Lowest
Temperature
during year
Highest
Temperature
during year
Year’s
Average
Dal
e
Below
Zero
Date
Above
Zero
45
8
Dec.
28
9.
7
July
8
91.5
42
4
Jan.
4
15.
1
July
18
93.0
44
7
Feb.
4
8.
2
July
18
92.1
45
2
Feb.
2
12.
1
July
22
92.1
44
2
Tan.
24
10.
0
July
16
88.8
46
4
Feb.
4
17.
4
July
30
91.5
45
8
Feb.
1
8.
7
Aug.
25
94.0
46
4
Feb.
6
10.
2
J une
22
93.4
47
7
Jan.
16
1.
7
July
3
103.2
44
8
Feb.
10
18.
8
Sept.
10
92.7
47
9
Mar.
7
2.
2
July
1
94.8
46
0
Jan.
13
22.
0
July
11
92.6
46
8
Jan.
22
1.
0
Aug.
16
87.5
46
4
Feb.
21
9.
3
July
30
100.2
43
2
Dec.
29
17.
0
July
30
98.0
46
0
Feb.
5
20.
2
Aug.
13
102.2
48
3
Dec.
17
7.
2
July
4
98.0
45
9
Jan.
31
17
8
June
10
92.8
49
9
Jan.
18
5.
0
July
5
98.4
48
0
Feb.
17
7.
0
Aug.
16
93.0
45
6
Jan.
17
12
0
June
24
95.6
44
6
Jan.
27
6.
2
Aug.
31
89.6
45
8
Dec.
27
13
8
June
6
94.6
43
8
Jan.
29
5
2
July
8
91.3
46
8
Jan.
26
17
2
June
30
95.0
46
6
Feb.
25
4.
2
July
8
90.0
46
0
Feb.
20
2
7
Sept.
3
94.3
47
6
Feb.
6
5
8
Aug.
4
95.0
49
4
Feb.
1
0
4
July
1
98.4
47
8
Dec.
16
*2
0
Aug.
31
94.8
47
5
Dec.
29
21
6
July
10
98.0
45
6
Feb.
8
21
2
June
2
94.0
46
1
Jan.
27
11
2
July
19
92.8
46
4
Feb.
19
3
2
July
9
105.0
47
6
Dec.
13
*2
0
July
8
94.6
48
4
Mar.
3
5
1
Aug.
15
91.8
47
1
Jan.
26
8
8
July
7
93.0
220
Weather Records — continued
1840-1939
Warmest day, 9th July, 1936. Mean temperature
91.6 degrees.
Highest registered temperature 105.0 degrees
on the 9th July, 1936.
Coldest day, 8th February, 1934. Mean tem¬
perature of 16.0 degrees below zero.
Lowest registered temperature, 26.5 degrees
below zero on 10th January, 1859.
Warmest year, 1921, mean temperature, 49.9
degrees.
Coldest year, 1875, mean temperature, 40.6.
Heaviest day rain, 3.88 inches on 27th July,
1897.
Heaviest day snow, 16.2 inches on March 28th,
1876.
Heaviest fall of snow in any winter, 123.5 inches
in 1869-70.
Least fall of snow in any winter, 25.7 inches in
1932-33.
221
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
The Canadian Red Cross Society holds its
charter under the Act of Incorporation passed
by the Parliament of Canada in 1909; a subse¬
quent amendment of its charter obtained from
the Dominion Parliament enlarged the scope of
its work to include the services mentioned in
the covenant of the League of Nations — "the
promotion of health, the prevention of disease
and the mitigation of suffering, both in peace
and war.''
The Central Council, which is the governing
agent of the Society, is a representative body
composed of two members elected by each
Provincial Division, and of fifteen "members-at-
large", elected by the eighteen Provincial repre¬
sentatives. Any person may become a member
of the Society by paying an annual subscription
of $1 to the Branch.
The Canadian Red Cross Society is composed
of a mighty army of volunteer workers entrusted
with the expenditure of five million dollars, sub¬
scribed voluntarily by the people of Canada for
Red Cross purposes.
WAR ACTIVITIES
On September 14, 1939, authority was given
by the Central Council for the setting up of a
222
The Canadian Red Cross Society — continued
special War Service executive with standing
committees as required for carrying out the
special duties of the Society in time of war.
The Canadian Red Cross Base Hospital No. 1,
with bed accommodation for six hundred men
and officers, is being built and equipped at a
cost of approximately $750,000, by the Cana¬
dian Red Cross Society, and will be staffed,
operated and maintained by the Department of
National Defence through the Canadian Army
Medical Corps. The location and setting, just
outside the Village of Taplow, about twenty-five
miles from London, constitute one of the beauty
spots of England.
All supplies overseas are handled under the
supervision of the London Advisory Committee
and are available first of all, for the benefit of
Canadians in camps, and secondly, for Cana¬
dians in hospital.
The Toronto Branch has instituted a "blood
donor service" operated through the facilities
of the University of Toronto for the collection of
blood to be made into a serum to be used by the
British Government for the benefit of wounded
British and Canadian soldiers.
The Beaver Club, within a stone's throw of
Canada House, between Trafalgar Square and
223
The Canadian Red Cross Society — continued
the Mall, is a centre to which Canadian soldiers
may come when on leave in London. While not
a Red Cross project, the Club has been made
possible by the Canadian Red Cross Society,
guaranteeing its finances up to $50,000.
The first of the Maple Leaf Clubs, operated
on a similar basis to those of the last war, has
been opened by the Canadian Red Cross Society,
where meals and accommodation are provided
at the moderate cost of fifty cents for bed and
breakfast, to our Canadian soldiers on leave in
London.
Prisoners of War
The Canadian Red Cross Society has been
appointed to be responsible for sending parcels
of food to Canadian prisoners of war, regularly
six times a month. These parcels will be sent
from England, so as to avoid the perils of ocean
transportation for these food supplies upon which
the life and health of prisoners depend. Parcels
are being sent by the Canadian Red Cross to
the two Canadians now imprisoned in Germany.
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
DOES NOT SELL ITS SUPPLIES— It distributes,
free of charge, the gifts entrusted to it by its
supporters.
224
The Canadian Red Cross Society — continued
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY'S
WORK IS CARRIED OUT BY AN ARMY OF
VOLUNTARY WORKERS.
ALL RED CROSS FUNDS ARE AUDITED.
NATIONAL OFFICERS
Norman Sommerville, Esq., K.C., Toronto,
Chairman of Central Council, and Executive
Committee.
Mrs. H. P. Plumptre (Alderman, Toronto City
Council), Vice-President and Vice-Chairman
for War activities.
Cclcnel A. L. Bishop, Toronto, Hcncrary Treasurer
F. D. L. Smith, Esq., Toronto, Honorary Secretary
L. A. Winter, Esq., Toronto, Comptroller
Dr. Fred. W. Routley, Maple, Ontario, National
Commissioner.
Head Office: 621 Jarvis Street, Toronto,
Telephone, Midway 1186.
223
INDEX
Page
Abattoir (Toronto Municipal) . 37, 111
Estimates of . 60
Accidents, what to do in case of . 97
Administration of Justice, Estimates . 58, 68
Admiralty Court, Registrar's Office . 42
Aldermen, addresses of . 22
Record of service . 27
Vote cast for . 80
Ambulance Service . 96
Appropriations . 49
Airports:
Port George VI (Island) . 179
Bishop Field (Malton) . 180
Airports, Municipal, net deficit . 63
Area of City . 87
Art Gallery, City Council representatives
on . 26
Assessment Department . 35
Estimates of . 51
Assessment of City, Statement of . 101
Assize Court Office . 42
Bell Telephone Company . 216
Birth Registration . 89
Board of Control, members and meetings 31
Board of Control, record of service . 28
Board of Education, members and officials 149
226
Page
Board of Education, election returns . 83
Estimates of . 66
Board of Police Commissioners . 38
Board of Trade, Officers and Council . 195
Bridges Mileage . 87
Buildings, Department of . 36, 112
Building Statistics . 112
Estimates of . 54
Canadian Red Cross Society . 221
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Mun¬
icipalities, Resolution passed by . 5
Canadian Manufacturers' Association . 200
Manufacturing Statistics . 201
Canadian National Exhibition . 162
City Council representatives on . 26
Estimates . 62, 71
List of Directors and Officers . 165
Dates of . 166
Statistics respecting . 166
Estimates of (see also Exhibition) . 62
Cartage Tariff . 145
Chief Coroner . 44
Coroners' Building . 44
Children's Aid Society, City Council repre¬
sentative on . 26
City Architect's Office (see Buildings,
Department of)
City, area of . 87
City Auditor's Office . 34
227
Page
City Audit Department, Estimates . 51
City Clerk's Office . 33
Estimates of . 51
City Council, members with addresses .... 22
Representatives on Hospitals and other
Boards . 26
Remuneration of . 49
Service record of members . 27
Days of meetings . 25
City Councils, Former Members Association 212
City Debt, Statement of . 45
City Jail . 38
City Planning and City Surveying, Depart¬
ment of . 35
Estimates of . 51
City Property, etc., General Rentals frcm,
Estimates . 68
City Registry Office . 44
City Solicitor's Office (see Law Depart¬
ment)
City Treasurer's Office . 33
Estimates of . 52
Civic Departments . 33
Civic Estimates . 47
Clerk of the Peace Office . 41
Commission on Claims, Estimates . 52
Committees, members and meetings . 31
Consumers' Gas Company . 209
Coat of Arms, Heraldically Described . 16
228
Page
Controllers, addresses of . 22
Record of service of . 27
Vote cast for . 80
Convention and Tourist Association Inc.
(Toronto) . 202
Coroners' Building . 44
County Court Clerk's Office . 41
County Court Judges' Chambers . 40
Court and Judicial Officers . 40
Court of Revision, sittings of . 86
Courts and Inquests, Estimates, General . . 54
Crown Attorney's Office . 43
Daylight Saving — Dates of . 25
Death Rate . 94
Death Registration . 89
Debenture Debt, Statement of . 45
Debt Charges in Estimates . 47
Division Court Clerk's Offices . 42
Election Returns:
Board of Education . 83
House of Commons . 73
Municipal . 80
Ontario Legislature . 74
Electric Light and Power, Rates for . 188
Estimates . 45
Express Wagon Tariff . 145
Exhibition (see Canadian National Exhibi¬
tion)
229
Page
Fire Department, Personnel and Equip¬
ment . 39, 120
Estimates of . 55
Fire Stations, location of . 122
Fire, Statistics of . 123
First Division Court Clerk's Office . 42
Gas, Rates for . 209
Gas Main Mileage . 87
General Courts and Inquests, Estimates of 54
Governor-General — In Memoriam . 3
Grants, Special . 50
Governor of Jail . 38
Gray Coach Lines . 184
Greater Toronto Business Council Publicity
Board . 211
Harbour Commissioners (see Toronto Har¬
bour Commissioners)
Health Department . 37, 92
Estimates of . 55
Health Statistics . 92
Hospitals, list of Public . 97
House of Industry, City Council Representa¬
tives on . 27
Housing Commission (Toronto) Estimates. 63, 71
Humane Society (Toronto) . 210
Hydro-Electric System (Toronto) . 187
230
Page
Independent Zoning Committee . 39
Industrial Commission (Toronto) . 203
City Council Representative on . 27
Island Ferry Service, Operation of . 185
Estimates of . 63
Island Water Rates . 118
Isolation Hospital Fees, Estimates of . 69
Judges, County Court . 40
King's Privy Council (Toronto) . 76
Lane Mileage . 87
Law Department . 34
Estimates of . 52
Legislation Committee, members and meet¬
ings . 32
Library, Public . 157
License Fees, schedule of . 127
Licenses, Fines, and Fees, Estimates of
Revenue from . 68
Life Saving Service, Estimates of . 65
Light and Power Rates . 188
Lighting, Estimates . 58
Local Board of Health, members and meet¬
ings . 15, 32
Local Board of the Mothers' Allowances
Commission . 193
Representatives of City on . 27
231
Page
Local Board of Old Age Pensions . 191
Representatives of City on . 27
Local Improvement Works . 113
Magistrates . 42
Magistrates' Courts and Offices . 42
Estimates of . 54
Marriage License Issuer, Office of . 89
Marriage License Fees, Estimates of . 69
Marriage Registration . 89
Master of Titles . 44
Massey Music Hall, City Council represen¬
tative on . 27
Mayor's Office . 33
Mayor, record of service . 28
Mayor, vote cast for . 80
Mayors, list of . 17
Mayors and Municipalities, Canadian Fed¬
eration of, Resolution adopted by . 5
Mothers' Allowances, Toronto Board . 193
City Council representatives on . 27
Motor Coach Service . 184
Municipal Abattoir (Toronto) . 37, 111
Estimates of . 60
Municipal Election Returns . 80
Non-Jury Court Office . 42
Old Age Pensions Board (Toronto) . 191
City Council representatives on . 27
232
Page
Ontario Municipal Association . 208
Ontario Municipal Board . 208
Parks and Exhibitions Committee, members
and meetings . 32
Parks and Playgrounds . 103
Parks Department . 36
Estimates of . 55
Parliamentary Election Returns:
House of Commons . 73
Ontario Legislature . 77
Penny Bank for Public School Pupils . 154
Pension Allowances and Grants . 64
Petitions for Local Improvements . 113
Playground Areas . 104
Police, Board of Commissioners of . 38
Police Department . 37, 125
Estimates of . 55
Police Officers . 38
Police Stations, location of . 125
Police Statistics . 125
Population, Statement of . 99
Privy Council, Members of (Toronto) . 76
Property Committee, members and meetings 31
Property Department . 35
Estimates of . 57
Provincial Government Subsidy, Estimate
of . 72
233
Page
Public Health . 92
Estimates of . 55
Public Library Board, matters relating to 157
City Council representatives on . 26
Estimates of . 66
Public Lighting, Estimates of . 58
Public Welfare Department . 37
Estimates of . 53
Publicity Board, Greater Toronto Business
Council . 211
Radial Railway (City owned), Estimates. . . 63
Recreation and Playgrounds, number of . . . 110
Red Cross Society, The Canadian . 221
Red Cross Society (Toronto Branch), City
Council representatives on . 27
Registry Office (City) . 44
Retiring Allowances and Grants, Estimates 64
Revenue from Taxation . 72
Revenue, General, other than Taxation ... 68
Roadway Mileage . 87
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair . 169
Estimates of . 63
Revenue, Estimates of . 72
St. Joseph's Hospital, City Council repre¬
sentative on . 26
St. Michael's Hospital, City Council repre¬
sentative on . 26
School, Estimates . 66
234
Page
School Statistics, Public . 1S1
Separate . 156
Senators (Toronto) . 76
Separate School Board, members and offi¬
cials . 155
Estimates of . 67
Sewer Mileage . 87
Sheriff's Offices . 41
Sidewalk Mileage . 87
Sight-seeing Tours . 184
Sinking Fund, Statement of . 45, 46
Social Services of Toronto . 213
Standing Committees, members of . 31
Street Cleaning Department . 36, 90
Estimates of . 58
Street Mileage . 87
Street Railway Fares . 182
Street Railway Track Mileage . 87
Surrogate Court Registrar's Office . 41
Taxation, Statement of . 101
Taxes, Dates for Payment . 102
Taxicab Tariff . 143
Telephone Exchange, Estimates . 57
Toronto — Industrial Centre of Canada . 7
Toronto's Contribution to Science . 12
Toronto and the Telephone . 216
Toronto and York Roads Commission . 207
Estimates of . 65
235
Page
Toronto Clearing House . 218
Toronto — Coat of Arms . 16
Toronto Convention and Tourist Associa¬
tion . 202
Toronto East General Hospital, City Coun¬
cil representatives on . 26
Toronto Family Court and Officers . 44
Estimates of . 54
Toronto Harbour Commissioners . 173
Estimates of . 63
Statistics respecting . 175
Toronto General Hospital, City Council
representatives on . 26
Toronto Housing Company, City Council
representative on . 26
Toronto Housing Commission, Estimates. . . 63
Toronto Humane Society . 210
City Council representative on . 27
Estimates of . 66
Toronto Hydro-Electric System . 187
Toronto Industrial Commission . 203
City Council representative on . 27
Toronto Municipal Abattoir . 37, 111
Toronto Old Age Pension Board . 191
City Council representatives on . 27
Toronto Transportation Commission . 181
Toronto Western Hospital, City Council
representatives on . 26
236
Page
Transportation Track Allowance, Pavement
Repairs, Estimates . 65
Trucks (Motor) Tariff . 145
Tweedsmuir, Lord, In Memoriam . 3
Vital Statistics . 89
Watermain Mileage . 88
Water Rates (Island) . 118
Schedule of . 115
Dates of Payment of . 115
Revenue from . 61
Water Works, Estimates of . 61
Water Works, Statistics . 88
Weather Records . 219
Weed Cutting, Estimates of . 66
Welfare, Department of Public . 37
Women's College Hospital, City Council
representative on . 26
Works Committee, members and meetings 31
Works Department . 34
Estimates of . 59
Zoning Committee, Independent J . 39
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